Re: Oracle 10g on Microsoft's Virtual Server

Actually, yes, this is supposed to go production. This server was purchased and virtual server was installed for the sole purpose of moving all servers to VMs.

I would like to say that this isn't at all my idea :). I am low (as low as you can get) on the pecking order.

The server is a dual core 2.8ghz xeon, 5 gigs of RAM, and a network storage of 1TB.

The only responsibility of this server (like how I say only?) will be a webserver, network installs, and Oracle 10g.

>From what I have read so far, I should expect about 66% of the
performance of the host PC on the VM.

What should be taken into consideration before this goes production? (In other words what technical information can I give the powers that be stop the forward movement of this plan?

I want to know what the IO performance is of MS's Vserver.

We have the production DB on an old compaq server. We have migrated the database to a test VM. As of right now, the database on the VM is about 5 times faster.

Thank you for all the input. Since I am totally in the dark, don't be affraid to speak your mind. I am not biased at all in this topic. I just want to better understand.

One other question. What size workload will oracle put on a PC? If it is a database accessed by 100 people. The size of one of the backups was 6 gbs.

Thanks again.

Doug Jones Received on Tue Sep 19 2006 - 08:14:58 CDT