Re: Oracle VM ?

Test/experiemental DBs are very important to mid to large size shops. I have been on teams with 30+ dev/test databases. If you can just clone your VM and copy it plus your OS install, this significantly reduces administration time. We are using Parallels VMs in development so that developers can get their own environments complete with DB, OS, application install to test against. It has been very useful.

Also, if you look on the VMWare website it appears that there are quite a few shops buying VMWare to using on production systems and slice up servers. Sun Microsystems new 8 core chip supposedly can run 64 Operating Systems at Once(I would bet the performance would be pretty bad).

So on small to mid-size DBs, there can be cause to use this in production. Some DBs may be on Windows and some may be in solaris, or Linux. You can run all 3 off of one expensive server.

• Original message ---------------------- From: "Nilo Segura" <nilosegura_at_gmail.com>
  > Hello,
  >
  > Now that Oracle has announced the "existence" of the Oracle VM
  > "thing", do people think that this is actually useful to run your DBs
  > on ?
  >
  > Personally I only see this as convenient way to run test/experimental
  > environments, but I do not see it in a fully critical production
  > environment. Should we see this as an alternative to Oracle Resource
  > Manager perhaps ?
  >
  > Any remarks/thoughts on this ? I did miss the announcement so I ignore
  > if they already gave some scenerarios where this could be used.
  >
  > Any remarks/thoughts ?
  >
  > p.s OpenWorld is really far too big, I miss the days when it was justs
  > the RDBMS and associated development tools...
  > -
  > Nilo Segura
  > Oracle Support - IT/DES
  > CERN - Geneva
  > Switzerland
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