Oracle has posted a tabular list of Supported Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Database and RAC Product Releases that identifies those virtualization/partitioning technologies already supported and reaffirms the policies that each new OS and its complementary virtualization/partitioning technology, must be certified by Oracle and, further, that each new OS plus its virtualization/partitioning solution must be guaranteed by the appropriate hardware vendor to be backward compatible to the version listed in the tables cited in the above link.
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It's a short path -- a mere four steps -- to virtualize existing Oracle Solaris 10 physical systems into Oracle Solaris Containers: check, capture, construct, and configure. An Oracle white paper explains just how easy this process is and how, among its other advantages, Oracle Solaris Containers provides an easy upgrade path to forthcoming Oracle Solaris releases.
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