Oracle 10g on VMWare

I have not been able to find a satisfactory answer regarding Oracle 10g on VMWare. On one page, Oracle states that "Oracle will not support production deployments of Oracle software on VMware" (http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/vmware/cookbook/index.html). However, the Metalink article it references states "Oracle will provide support of the Oracle Stack on VMware. If a problem is investigated where Oracle software gives a problem specifically when running on a VMware virtual machine, and it can be reproduced on a physical PC, a bug will be submitted to development for resolution. Any issues which are VMware
specific will be referred back to VMware for support."
Now I'm stuck in a difficult position: I have a production database installed on a VMware device that is seriously sucking wind (mostly related to disk I/O and swap, either the VMware device or the ESX server it's running on) and I have contradictory information from Oracle. Does anyone have any insight into a formal position from Oracle?
Without a definitive answer, I need to figure out a way to tune what I have to squeeze every last drop of performance from the VMware device. I am running Oracle 10gR2 in 9.2.0.6 compatibility mode. I am running RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES, update 7. The VMware device has 2 CPUs and 2 GB of RAM (the most this version of ESX can provide is ~3.5 GB but I start running into issues because the ESX server is oversubscribed at that amount of RAM). The database is doing mostly OLTP and is approximately 150 GB in size.
Any assistance / guidance is greatly appreciated.

I
start running into issues because the ESX server is
oversubscribed at that amount of RAM). The database
is doing mostly OLTP and is approximately 150 GB in
size.Do you think being oversubscribed on the memory might be a factor to why you are seeing high I/O and swapping?
What they stating is that Oracle will support the product in VMWare providing the problem can be reproduced on a physical machine. Oracle is not alone in this regard, many other companies are taking the same position.

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DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 9.0.2.1
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