Re: Oracle names servers on VMware

From: Glen <stromqueat_at_telusdotnet.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:26:58 GMT
Message-ID: <SmUzf.93201$AP5.64610@edtnps84>

DA Morgan wrote:

> Glen wrote:
> 

>> I have to move one of my names servers because we are retiring a
>> machine soon, since I am going to be (hopefully) switching to OID
>> sometime this year I only need a temporary home for it. We just
>> started using VMware for testing and development environments, and I
>> though that a VM might be a good home for a names server. Can't see
>> this as being an issue as my experience so far with Oracle on VM's, is
>> that is runs fine.
>>
>> Anyone else done this or heard of anyone running names servers on VM's?
>>
>> tia

> 
> 
> Make sure Oracle will provide support. It is likely they won't but I've
> not checked.

Good idea, I know they will support databases running on VM's, as I TAR'd a question about this a couple of weeks ago, their only caveat was that whatever the problem was had to be reproducable on an identical database running in a regular environment.

I am thinking a names server should be no problem, probably going to go ahead with it in any case as I already have a secondary server as well as tnsnames in place for failover. Received on Thu Jan 19 2006 - 16:26:58 CST