Previously Oracle had decline to provide the official support if you virtualizing your database instance into the VMware virtual infrastructure. Today, there is an official announcement from VMware which confirm the official support from oracle will be provided even you virtualize your database server into VMware.

This is a good news for most of the ERP users especially when you have SAP running in your production environment.

(see SAP Note 1173954 for details):
1. Since Jan 13, 2009, Oracle supports SAP production landscapes on Oracle DB single instance (no RAC) virtualized with VMware ESX 3.5 and higher
2. Minimum OS on MSFT is Windows Server 2008; SLES and RHEL are also supported
3. Minimum Oracle release is Oracle 10.2.0.4
4. Oracle will support VMware in the context of Oracle Metalink Note 249212.1

Read the full details from the official announcement.

The VMware Converter 4 is now in public BETA. You will able to download the VM converter through the link below, providing you have an VMware store account for your log in. There are some new features in this version which provide the P2V solution for Linux environment on the fly. The Linux version which had been included are RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu Linux.

It also support the P2V conversion process for Windows Server 2008. VM converter version 4 do support for converting new third-party image formats, including Parallels Desktop virtual machines, newer versions of Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft.

VMware Converter 4 Beta

Click here if you do not have a VMware account