Perhaps they just like OS's that have a large pool of experienced and cheap
administrators and not OS's that seem to generate a large pool of expensive
evangelists.
On 1/3/07, Kerber, Andrew <Andrew.Kerber_at_umb.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, my advice is don't do it. Linux to Windows? Is this guy a MS
> employee perhaps?
>
>
>
> Andrew W. Kerber
> Oracle DBA
> UMB
>
>
>
>
> "If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *Ron Rogers
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 03, 2007 2:28 PM
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* Oracle on windows 2003 on vmware
>
>
>
> List,
>
> Our corporate wiz kid has decided to migrate our Oracle 10g database from
> Linux to Windows2003 on Vmware.
>
> Are there any special setup instruction needed to make this work properly?
> Any references that I might have missed? I searched the OTN but did not find
> anything that jumped out at me.
>
>
>
> Linux server. 1 CPU, 4 GIG ram, 3 internal mount points for data. Oracle
> setup with 1.6 GIG SGA
>
>
>
> Windows VMWARE server. 1 CPU, 4 GIG ram, 3 mount points on SAN(2 fiber
> channel 1 SATA) data. Oracle setup with 1.6 GIG SGA
>
>
>
> Both servers have the same tables, partitions, and data loaded on one
> mount point. In the Windows case it is the SATA SAN.
>
> I set timing on.
>
> I run the query select count(*) from a table that has 500,000,000 records
> and
>
> Linux = 4 min, 24.83 seconds
>
> Windows = 19 min,53.19 seconds
>
>
>
> The results are proportionatly the same for the other tables that have
> millions of records.
>
>
>
> Is there any helpful hints that we might have missed when we set up the
> VMWARE ESX server for windows/oracle?
>
>
>
> When I google for VMWARE and Oracle the results are for Linux and RAC not
> windows. Maybe they are trying to tell me something.
>
>
>
> Any usefull suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron Rogers
>
> DBA
>
> Georgia Lottery Corp.
>
> 404-215-5072
>
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