Invoking oracle ESB API through http protocol

If you want to see the service status of esb in one xml file you can invoke oracle esb API through http protocol. For instance you can use http://hostname:port/esb/esbConfiguration/executeCommand?action=ExploreServices to list all your esb services and statuses in one xml document

This is documented very well @ One of soa blog

Optimizing Oracle on VMware

I have been looking into the issues of running RDMS on vmware and found the following articles to be useful.

optmising oracle on vmware

Deployment of Oracle Databases on VMware Infrastructure

virtual machines versus bare metal

RAC on virtual machines