The IFS statement on supporting virtualized servers.
Virtualization SoftwareIf running IFS Applications on virtualization software (VMWare, XEN, Hyper-Wetc.) customers should be aware that IFS certification of various platforms isdone on physical servers only. When running components of IFS Applications onvirtual servers support is provided in the following manner.
If a problem arises and it is a known IFS Applications issue, IFS will recommendan appropriate solution.
If that solution does not work, the customer mustcontact the VM software Vendor's support for further help.
If the problem isdetermined to be an unknown IFS Applications issue when running on a VM, the issue must be reproduced on a physical system by thecustomer or VM vendor support before IFS will try and solve the problem.
All issues whichare determined to be VM specific will be referred back to the customer, whoshould contact VM vendor support.
In addition all policies for Virtualization stated by Oracle also Apply forthe IFS Application database.
Oracle generally do not support nor recommend theOracle RDBMS database server to be virtualized in a production environment.
See for example Oracles VMware policy statement (Note:249212.1:Support Status for VMware)
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