Overview
Oracle software provides mission-critical foundations for the majority of large enterprises worldwide. VMware Infrastructure simplifies IT environments so that Oracle IT administrators can leverage their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond quickly to changing business needs. In the demanding world of Oracle application development and deployment, virtualized infrastructure brings quantifiable time-to-market and TCO improvements by reducing development hardware infrastructure costs and by allowing more developers and users to be hosted on existing and future industry standard hardware.
Since Oracle Database is one of the most commonly virtualized applications, VMware invests a great deal of work towards optimizing its performance on VMware Infrastructure. VMware ESX 3.5 is our best database platform to date, with several new advanced optimizations. Read more about the new VMware ESX 3.5 features that drive this great performance.
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- Performance Highlights
- Oracle database runs on VMware ESX at near-native performance
- The CPU overhead for Oracle Database on VMware ESX can be less than 10%
- VMware ESX scales linearly with VMware Virtual SMP
- VMware ESX delivers more than 100,000 database disk I/Os per second
Optimal Performance: Oracle Databases on VMware ESX Server
- Webcast Replay: Oracle Database Performance on VMware Infrastructure
Our VMware performance experts will explain how you can achieve great Oracle database and application performance – including proof that you can drive an x86 server up to 100,000 IOPs or better – with VMware virtualization technology.
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VMware at Oracle OpenWorld 2008
September 22-25, 2008
San Francisco, Moscone Center
Platinum Booth #1214
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