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We have been looking to upgrade a client to SAS 9.2 and at the same time move to the clients corporate IT standard of virtualising the environments.
The client has standardised on vSphere and I thought great SAS 9.2 supports vSphere (as much as the following SAS support page say’s SAS supports virtualisation)
SAS® Product Support for Virtualization Environments
But after talking to Oracle about Weblogic support on VMware the answer is no, Oracle do not support any Oracle product on VMWare.
To quote from Oracle Metalink note: 249212.1 (found on a comment in response to another blog) :
“Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized environments. Oracle Support will assist customers running Oracle products on VMware in the following manner: Oracle will only provide support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on VMware. ”
“If a problem is a known Oracle issue, Oracle support will recommend the appropriate solution on the native OS. If that solution does not work in the VMware virtualized environment, the customer will be referred to VMware
for support. When the customer can demonstrate that the Oracle solution does not work when running on the native OS, Oracle will resume support, including logging a bug with Oracle Development for investigation if required.”
So what does Oracle Weblogic support in terms of virtualisation? OVM of course. Does SAS support OVM, of course not! (well actually this doesn’t seem to be true more on that later)
If we look at SAS Supported UNIX Operating Environments we see that Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) is not on the list. If we look at SAS Support for Alternative Operating Systems we see that OEL is not support but SAS will offer “best efforts” support.
The question is does OVM require OEL?
Well the answer is no, according to this Oracle VM Server for x86 FAQ OVM support Red Hat Linux (REHL). So in theory we can run Weblogic on REHL in a OVM environment.
Is this supported by Oracle, yes it seems from all the links above.
Is it supported by SAS, well waiting to here back officially, but remember this SAS® Product Support for Virtualization Environments states that they support any virtualisation (but have the same get out of jail free card as Oracle), so that should be a yes, SAS should support the use of OVM!
Now the real issue if after installing SAS eBI, using Oracle Weblogic on RHEL 5 within a Oracle VM environment we strike a problem, who the heck do we ring first? (you know its going to be SAS Support right 
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