UPDATED 12:24 EDT / JUNE 26 2013

Support for Oracle on Hyper-V Good for All Concerned, but Especially Microsoft

Monday’s announcement of an agreement that provides full Oracle support for its products on Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure environments is good news for Oracle, Microsoft, and the users of their products, writes Scott Lowe in his latest Wikibon Alert.

It certainly is a huge boost for Microsoft. Two years ago Hyper-V was a “running joke” that “lacked just about everything that made vSphere the predominant player in the space.” Today it has grown up to the point that Oracle has chosen it as its preferred hypervisor (after its own product, of course). “If nothing else, Oracle is run by shrewd people who wouldn’t risk their flagship products running on shoddy underpinnings.” So this announcement gives Hyper-V (and Azure) serious creds in the industry.

This also is good news for CIOs in the process of virtualizing their environments, particularly those who use Hyper-V. And the evidence is that that group is growing. At a seminar on virtualization Lowe attended this week, 47% of attendees indicated that they use Hyper-V in their environments. For them this is a green light — Oracle is saying its products will run correctly on Hyper-V and Azure and that if the customer does have a problem, Oracle will fix it.

For companies not using Hyper-V for at least part of their environment, the news is not as good. So far at least, vSphere is “persona non grata” at Oracle, which means that while some companies are running Oracle on vSphere, if they get into trouble Oracle may require that they back out of the virtualized environment and demonstrate the problem on bare metal. Oracle, Lowe says, may be talking with VMware, but if so no hint of that has gotten out as yet.

For those organizations he recommends a wait-and-see attitude for now. If Oracle does announce support for vSphere, then they can go ahead without violating their service agreements. If not, they may want to consider using Hyper-V for their Oracle applications. An increasing number of data centers are running both.

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