Re: OEMGC on VM with Windows 2008 Server
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:57:28 +0000
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Good info to know and excellent replies so far- this is exactly what I'm looking for. Kellyn
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From: Kevin Lidh <kevin.lidh_at_gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:44:59
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Subject: Re: OEMGC on VM with Windows 2008 Server
We have a 10.2.0.4 Grid environment running on a VM on an ESX server and have for a couple years. We have a copy of the VM in our DR site so we can bring it up in case of a disaster. The only issue we've run into is the DR copy. I activated it once and every morning around 2am, the OC4J_EM process would consume 100% CPU and die. It turns out that our 100 Windows VMs all do their virus scanning at the exact same time. Before I figured out the virus scanner, I had a SR open with Oracle. They had me upgrade to 10.2.0.5.0 and it didn't change anything. I applied a patch and also upgraded to 11g. Then it was a different process which pegged the CPU and died but the end result was the same.
Kevin Lidh
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jeffrey Beckstrom <JBECKSTROM_at_gcrta.org>wrote:
> We are running GC 10.2.0.5 on a windows VM Ware server without problems.
> The database is on a separate X64 server.
>
> Jeffrey Beckstrom
> Database Administrator
> Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
> 1240 W. 6th Street
> Cleveland, Ohio 44113
>
> >>> Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba_at_gmail.com> 9/24/10 1:21 PM >>>
>
> I Have an APEX I use for development on a VM on my personal LAN and it
> works fairly well... mind you, it's not a full load test server, for that I
> have the production LAN in which I have an LPAR for dev/test purposes.
>
> Both the dev/test and prod OEMGC are on LPARs which are virtual servers but
> far better than VMW.
>
> I have ran APEX on HTTP Server (back in 10.2.0.3 days) for production and
> it was stable... it required some tweaking on the VM side, but it should be
> fairly simple.
>
> On the other hand, you can try Oracle VM, which in theory works ok with
> OEMGC.
>
> I used to have a OEMGC in a portable VM so when I got to a customer's
> office I'd fire it up and have a working OMS there... it was a ugly config
> and it usually had no more than three or four targets, but it worked. (I've
> since stopped visiting small customers and started working for very large
> corporations, so having a full LPAR or seven for the Grid is possible)...
>
> I guess the answer there depends on the number of targets you are planning
> to have.
>
> hth
> Alan.-
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Kellyn Pedersen <kjped1313_at_yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Ello everyone!
>> Just a little pro-active research here...:) The boss is investigating and
>> would like to test building our OEMGC on a VM, (VMWare, paid version 4 or
>> they are researching the free version, but that makes me a bit nervous...)
>> This is version 10.2.0.5 on the OEM and also house our RMAN catalog.
>> This VM server would also be home for our 11g, (11.0.7.0) Apex and an
>> open source 10.2.0.4 ODBC bridge to SQL Server.
>> My previous experience with OEM on a VM server was not very positive,
>> but it was a couple years ago and due to, (my theory here...)
>> misconfiguration of the resources that allowed the OEM VM to be starved for
>> the resources in CPU and memory it required to run 24/7.
>> Anyone out there running OEM and/or Apex on VMWare or another VMServer?
>> Any recommendations? Warnings? Risks and gotchas? I prefer to be as prepared
>> as possible in the upcoming build vs. going in blind... :)
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Kellyn Pedersen
>> Sr. Database Administrator
>> I-Behavior Inc.
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/kellynpedersen
>> www.dbakevlar.blogspot.com
>>
>>
>
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