Our engineers did the initial setup, so it was not difficult. Two people were enough.

We implemented in-house.

We are certified implementors of this technology now.

I currently work as a consultant for different IT products, so I take care of the deployment phase by myself.

The implementation was completed in-house.

The implementation was done in-house.

We did it in-house as we wanted to gain the skills since we are a vendor for other clients. Having gone through the experience and gained a lot of knowledge in the process, we would recommend that it can be a little challenging.

The installation takes just a few minutes, it is very prompt.

We had an integrator install the solution for us. 

We did it in-house, but ultimately had to get Oracle involved for the initial implementation. The version we are currently on is very stable. I should probably consider upgrading, but it’s a lower priority task right now.

We implemented it with our in-house team.

I managed the deployment myself. 

The deployment was done in-house.

no vendors at all. i tested and deployed this product by myself. initially it was 3.4.2 then we upgraded to 3.4.5. 

Since I'm a technical person, it takes half an hour for me to deploy Oracle VM.

For the deployment, you need a consultant and an integrator. It is very difficult to deploy this solution. If you use the server storage, you need a consultant.

The initial installation was a combination of a hired individual that had had some experience, and ourselves. Mostly it was done by our team getting training as much as we could, due to the fact that they kept on canceling the classes. Mostly we handled the implementation on our own.

I did the implementation myself.

We implemented Oracle VM stack by ourselves. One of my words of advice is, if you need to implement complex applications such as an Oracle RAC database on an Oracle VM stack, it takes some learning curve. You need to understand both Oracle VM and Oracle RAC stack, and would need to design the special networking and shared storage that are required by Oracle RAC database. An Oracle white paper such as https://www.oracle.com/technetw... will definitely be helpful. Here are a couple of screen shots from one of our previous Oracle RAC POC projects:

Oracle Infrastructure Cloud based on Oracle VM and Oracle EM 12c

Oracle VM architecture designed for Oracle RAC database

We mostly use a vendor to set up OVM, but occasionally we will do it in-house as well. My main advice is to practice it first, read all documentation, look at MOS documents, and review all blogs and community discussions you can find.

We are Oracle Field Engineers and have lots of Specialization around the product.

The initial setup for Oracle VM is pretty straightforward. Installing the hypervisor on what's called an OVS, Oracle VM Server takes maybe five minutes and you're up and running. Installing the management software itself, they may take a little longer, maybe an hour for a complete install from scratch before you're up and running, and it's all web based which is really nice. You don't have to have any special clients on it. Often I'll be managing the system either from Windows or even from my iPad.

I've implemented in my own company for internal use and as consultant engineer, I've performed several implementations for clients.

You always can get faster result going with consultancy services as they provide expertise and background from many previous implementations of the product.

We are consultants. We assist our customers with implementations.

I implemented it for British and European clients using my own build document as there was not enough information for Hitachi SAN storages. I would advise you to create a proper POC and test all hardware pieces. Also, Oracle Linux is a must have on these kind of environments.

Our main effort was using in-house resources. The vendor team only supported training.

I used a mixed team of vendor and in-house personnel for the implementation.

We did it in-house.

We implemented it ourselves with our in-house team.

I carried out the implementation.

The implementation was done by a local team of the company with some issues but finally with success.

In-house. If you know Linux and Xen, you are good to go. If you don't, get a partner to do this for you.

We implemented it ourselves with our in-house team.