Re: Oracle Taining Hardware for 5+ people

From: Alex Fatkulin <afatkulin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:49:27 -0400
Message-ID: <49d668000909221249x40de3552r445efd17585a60dd_at_mail.gmail.com>

speaking of type 1 hypervisors -- VMWare ESXi 4 seems to be free as well

http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/

though I don't have much experience with either (we have a pretty large clustered implementation on ESXi 3.5 but that's a totally different story).

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone tried Oracle VM? Or would they recommend he stick with
> VMWARE? I know VMWARE Server is a free product as well as Oracle VM.
>
> As for a decent server, we use HP's. We have DL 585's and DL385's. In
> fact the DL385 goes up to 144GB (DDR-3) of Ram and you can have a 2
> hexacore processors. Something like that should be around 20k but you
> might even be able to do better if you go to newegg and buy the stuff
> and build your own server.
>

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