Virtualized Oracle Database can be migrated with zero downtime using VMware VMotion

Oracle databases and applications provide mission-critical software foundations for the majority of large enterprises worldwide. VMware Infrastructure 3 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.

This is a great video demo on the benefits of VMotion, DRS, and HA for your production Oracle databases.  Check it out here.  You can check out the rest of the Oracle information here.

~ by c1tr1xguru on May 7, 2008.