Oracle has just released a new service into the virtualization market and already they are stirring the waters and shaking things up. Apparently Oracle stated that their server performs and works better than those of “the existing leader server virtualization product.” While Oracle did not specify who the leader was many have assumed that they were speaking of VMWare.
Larry Ellison - CEO at Oracle - stated earlier in the week that they would be able to back this statement up by showing off their growing numbers on Friday. When Friday rolled around everyone was waiting – but Oracle could not deliver as promised. They haven’t given us an exact date on when they would be available.
VMware’s vice president of global partners and solutions -Brian Byun – stated that Oracle was using the statement as a ploy to attract the crowd – which would explain why there is no evidence to back them up. He went on to say , “When VMWare launches a product and makes claims, we publish the full data.”
Both VMWare and Oracle decided to prove who was best by posting a bit of information on their individual websites. VMWare posted an article with the title titled “Ten Reasons Why Oracle Databases Run Best on VMWare.”
Oracle posted this article - “Oracle ran many performance benchmarks comparing Oracle products running with Oracle VM against the existing leading server virtualization product and also with Oracle products on non-virtualized operating systems on x86 and x86-64. Oracle consistently saw much better resource utilization with an average of three times less overhead using Oracle VM, and also saw significant scalability with virtual SMP. In many cases, the comparison with real hardware was approximately equal in performance.”
Whether or not this statement is true or fiction hasn’t been proven. VMWare stated that it wasn’t their place to call them out on it without any hard facts to back them up.
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