Migrating form PowerVm to VMWARE

[aipo48t]

Has anyone looked or successfully migrated their Oracle workload from a PowerVM(P series machine) to a INTEL Linux VMWARE environment. Starting next year they are wanting us to look at some other possible cheaper options other than AIX and Powevm. Is it a good idea, can VMWARE handle the io and performance hits, and is there that possibility of having to buy additonal licenses for Oracle?

Thanks,

 

[itsp1965]

Try the IBM techdocs site

http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/Web/TechDocs

There are plenty of solution briefs for running Oracle workloads on the different hypervisors on the different platforms although no comparisons really.

You can always try a PoC (proof of concept) to see if you're getting the same level of performance that you are expecting from migrating to the Vmware soln.