RE: PeopleSoft ERP DEV/TEST environment on VMWare Virtual Machine

From: David Kurtz <info_at_go-faster.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 21:28:34 +0100
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I have seen it done, but it is not common. Possibly because Linux is not particularly common in the PeopleSoft world. I have seen a number of people using AIX virtualisation recently, but you would have to have a separate LPAR for the whole of each PeopleSoft development environment (dev, test, uat, training etc).

It has the advantage that you can copy a VM/LPAR to preserve a version of the database (which contains most of the source code for the PeopleSoft application) and the PeopleTools directories on the filesystem (which hold the binaries, SQR and Cobol programs) from before you applied an upgrade or a patch. This is particularly useful for a PeopleTools rather than an Application patch.

However, I agree with Jared. You do need to consider your Oracle licencing - and you do need a licence for a development database.

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Jared Still
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 11:37 PM
To: litanli_at_gmail.com
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: PeopleSoft ERP DEV/TEST environment on VMWare Virtual Machine Importance: High

On 8/3/07, Li Li <litanli_at_gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, all,

I wonder if anybody on this list has PeopleSoft ERP DEV/TEST environment (including database, app/web server, process scheduler, etc) running on Virtual Machine? Is there anything that needs to be concerned? Any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

-Li

One thing you need to consider about Oracle licenses:

If you are licensed by CPU, then Oracle will consider that all of the CPU's on the
VM server are used by Oracle.

Even if assign 1 cpu from a 16 cpu box, Oracle requires a license for 16 CPU's.

This topic was discussed here just last week I think, so you may want to search the archives.

-- 
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist




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