Certified Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Database and RAC Product Releases

Unix, Linux, & Windows Operating Systems

This page contains information on certified virtualization and partitioning technologies for Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) product releases.

General note: Oracle Database is mainly certified against the Operating System (OS).  If an OS vendor releases a newer OS version along with a complementary virtualization and / or partitioning technology, the support of this new combination depends on the following:

  • The new OS must be certified by Oracle.
  • The new OS plus the virtualization / partitioning solution is guaranteed by the appropriate hardware vendor to be backward compatible to the version listed in the table below.

Additional notes: 

The following table identifies the certififed virtualization / partitioning technologies for Oracle Database and Oracle RAC: 

Platform Virtualization Technology Operating System Certified Oracle Single Instance Database Releases Certified Oracle RAC Database  Releases
Oracle Solaris Sparc Dynamic Domain Solaris 9
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 10gR2 
  • 11gR1 
Solaris 10
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1 Note
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2 
  • 12cR1  
Solaris 11
OVM for SPARC (formerly known as LDoms) Solaris 10
Solaris 11
OVM for SPARC Live Migration Solaris 10
  • No
Solaris 11
  • No
Oracle Solaris Containers Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris Zones Solaris 11
Oracle Solaris 8 Branded Zone Oracle Solaris 9 Branded Zone Solaris 10
  • N/A
Oracle Solaris 10 Zone Solaris 11
  • 10gR2 (>=10.2.0.5) Note
  • 11gR1 (>=11.1.0.7) Note
  • 11gR2 (>=11.2.0.3) Note
Oracle Solaris x86-64 Oracle Solaris Containers Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris Zones Solaris 11
Oracle Solaris Kernel Zones Solaris 11
Oracle Solaris 10 Zone Solaris 11
  • 10gR2 (10.2.0.5) Note
  • 11gR2 (11.2.0.3) Note
Oracle VM Server for x86-64 Solaris 10
Solaris 11  
IBM AIX Power Dynamic Logical Partitions (DLPAR), including
  • Dynamic partition reconfiguration
  • Micro Partitions
  • Shared Processors
 AIX 5.3
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
AIX 6.1
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1 (12.1.0.2)
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1 (12.1.0.2)
AIX 7.1
AIX 7.2
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1 (12.1.0.2)
  • 12cR2
  • 19c (19.3+)
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1 (12.1.0.2)
  • 12cR2
  • 19c (19.3+)
AIX 7.3
  • 19c (19.13+)
  • 19c (19.13+)
Logical Partitions (LPAR), including
  • Micro Partitions
  • Shared Processors
 AIX 5.3
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
AIX 6.1
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1
  • 12cR2
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1
  • 12cR2
AIX 7.1
AIX 7.2
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1
  • 12cR2
  • 18c (18.3+)
  • 19c (19.3+)
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1
  • 12cR2
  • 18c (18.3+)
  • 19c (19.3+)
AIX 7.3
  • 19c (19.13+)
  • 19c (19.13+)
Live Partition Migration (LPM) See notes for certification with ASM or GPFS for data storage AIX 5.3
  • No
AIX 6.1
AIX 7.1
AIX 7.2
AIX 7.3
  • 19c (19.13+)
  • 19c (19.13+)
Workload Partition (WPAR) AIX 6.1
  • No
AIX 7.1
AIX 7.2
  • 11gR2 Note
  • 12cR1 (12.1.0.2) Note
  • 12cR2 (12.2.0.1) Note
  • 19c (19.3+)
  • No
AIX 7.3
  • 19c (19.13+)
  • No
Active Memory Expansion (AME) AIX 6.1
AIX 7.1
AIX 7.2
AIX 7.3
  • 19c (19.13+)
  • 19c (19.13+)
HP-UX Itanium Integrity VM HP-UX 11.31 or HP-UX 11.23 Guest
  • 9iR2 (>=HPVM 3.5) Note
  • 10gR1 (>=HPVM 3.5) Note
  • 10gR2 (>=HPVM 3.5) Note
  • 11gR1 (>=HPVM 4.0) Note
  • 11gR2 (>=HPVM 4.2) Note
  • 12cR1 (>=HPVM 6.2) Note
  • 12cR2 (>=HPVM 6.3) Note
  • 18c (>=HPVM 6.3) Note
  • 19c (>=HPVM 6.3) Note
  • No
Integrity VM Live Migration HP-UX 11.31 or HP-UX 11.23 Guest
  • 10gR2 (>=10.2.0.4) (>=HPVM 4.1) Note
  • 11gR1 (>=HPVM 4.1) Note
  • 11gR2 (>=HPVM 4.2) Note
  • No
Containers (SRP) HP-UX 11.31
  • N/A
nPartition (nPAR) Static HP-UX 11.31
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1 (12.1.0.1 or later)
  • 12cR2
  • 18c
  • 19c
HP-UX 11.23
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
nPartition (nPAR) Dynamic HP-UX 11.31
  • 10gR2
HP-UX 11.23
  • No
Virtual Partitions (vPAR) Static HP-UX 11.31
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
  • 12cR1 (12.1.0.1 or later)
  • 12cR2
  • 18c
  • 19c
HP-UX 11.23
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
Virtual Partitions (vPAR) Dynamic HP-UX 11.31
HP-UX 11.23
  • 10gR2 (>=10.2.0.3)
  • 11gR1
HP PA-RISC nPartition (nPAR) Static HP-UX 11.31
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
HP-UX 11.23
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
nPartition (nPAR) Dynamic HP-UX 11.31
  • No
HP-UX 11.23
  • No
Containers (SRP) HP-UX 11.31
  • No
Virtual Partitions (vPAR) Static HP-UX 11.31
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
HP-UX 11.23
  • 10gR2
  • 11gR1
Virtual Partitions (vPAR) Dynamic HP-UX 11.31
  • 10gR2 (10.2.0.3)
  • 11gR1
  • 11gR2
HP-UX 11.23
  • 10gR2 (10.2.0.3)
  • 11gR1
Linux x86 Oracle VM Oracle VM v2
Oracle VM v3
Oracle VM Live Migration Oracle VM v2
  • 10gR2