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I agree with Richard. We used VMware in our development environment to
consolidate servers. I will say - unless you have a substantial amount of
hardware, there is going to the inevitable temptation to add that one extra
VM instance that's just one too many and performance suffers. But, if you
had a substantial amount of hardware, you probably wouldn't be using VMs.
My only advice is be very careful about overloading your servers with too many VMs. Disk, CPU and Memory will become scarce at peak times and performance will be BAD.
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Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:34 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Not in a production environment, but I have been using VMWare Workstation
since 2.0 with Oracle
as my test, development platform. I run various Linux (RH, SuSE) with
Oracle without much problems.
I have found occassionally simutanously start Opera and VMware cause my
machine to freeze.
Now, I wouldn't want to run a production Oracle under VMware. Running
Oracle is as complex as it
is, why add another component to the mix? You will now have to deal with
Windows + VMware + Windows + Oracle. You will have to deal with patching,
upgrading VMware. To me, it's not worth it. It's not like
you are consolidating 100+ database servers, or are you?
Richard Ji
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
All,
I was wondering if anyone has any experience (good or bad) with the use of VMware on Oracle database servers? I am hearing rumors within my company that management is looking to utilize VMware to consolidate our WindowsNT/2000 database servers (test, development, and production). At this point I have not been able to find much information relating to the use of VMware in an Oracle environment and I am curious if it is widely used. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Susan Kersting
susandgk_at_yahoo.com
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