Re: ODA - VM question (Windows)

From: David Ramírez Reyes <dramirezr_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:15:52 -0600
Message-ID: <CAJt=wvW=wmL_mYD3kz9vTr0L-oAQwK6DJc1c6MOwLKUeuyCRUA_at_mail.gmail.com>

I have never liked MS Products (with the exception of Office, I have to say), but here in the company we have 8 DB's running over Windows (it was CIO decision, don't ask).

These are small databases (120 GB the biggest) but very critical for the business as they are in use 24x7x365 and I have to say that the performance and stability is surprisingly good (11g R2 with Win Server 2008 -virtualized over VMWare).

You have to be careful when you request Oracle support because they will tell you that they don't certificate the DB over a virtualized environment -at least not 11g R2 and not over Windows- and they will use that to explain any possible bad behavior on the DB, even if it's not related.

Of course am still against this use, as I know all the features and possibilities Oracle DB has over Linux/Unix environments and are not available for Windows, but I would lie if I say that everything is a mess.

Here's a a good like that I would suggest you to check before starting working over Windows (specially if you are used to work with Linux/Unix for the DB server, which was my case), this is very good beginning:

http://www.rampant-books.com/art_oracle_on_windows_unix_users.htm

Good luck...

Regards

David Ramírez Reyes
Profesión: Padre de Familia

On 26 March 2015 at 15:03, Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't have an appliance, just in the early stages of figuring out if it
> will be worth it for use. We would use maybe 4 cpu's of it for our
> databases, with the rest being a waste. So I was thinking if Windows runs
> on there then that would be more useful for us. And our databases don't
> have large growth where we would need to expand much in the future.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:54 PM, George <georgelza_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Please do tell,
>>
>> Also bout to deploy this.
>>
>> G
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Jeff Chirco <backseatdba_at_gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Anybody run Oracle Database Appliance with the VM option and run a
>>> Windows VM for example as an application server? Just wondering how well
>>> Windows OS runs on it.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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