Re: Oracle 10g on Microsoft's Virtual Server

Sadly I am not in the position to change things here. I understand that there may infact be better practices that could be put into production. However, being that I can't change how things are, I would be more interested in what impact running Oracle on a Mircosoft Virtual server would have. What is the average "workload" of an Oracle server for say 100 users and a database about 11.9gig (backup file size). I really appreciate such a great response to my question. I haven't seen this much support since my days in the Linux forums.

Doug Jones.

Brian Peasland wrote:
> > Could you not just restore the VM from last backup (which is very quick)
> > , then startup mount the db, recover with backupcontrolfile and apply
> > all the redo like you would any other database? This is assuming you
> > have duplexed the redo to another drive or VM..
>
> You would have to also have another copy of the archived redo logs. The
> online redo logs would not be enough.
>
> > The time saving here is the time it takes to restore a VM as opposed to
> > building a new server with OS, install and patch Oracle, then restore
> > backed up datafiles..
>
> A good backup strategy would also backup the OS, so it would not have to
> be re-installed, re-configured, and re-patched.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian
>
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Received on Wed Sep 20 2006 - 11:57:09 CDT