It's 25 different single instance databases that are currently on 25
different servers. If these 25 (proof of concept) work out then there
are many more that could follow. These are all legacy applications, a
bit of everything so there's no opportunity to consolidate the
databases without making major application changes. Wish there was but
it's just not possible. Either way it seems to me that they will be
overhead with VMware virtual servers, a database / server (what we have
now) or with RAC. There's always the other option of just loading up a
server with a few database instances and not using VMware but that
makes it difficult for us to move a database from one server to
another. With VMware and Vmotion I'm led to believe that moving a
virtual server from one server to another is very easy.
Received on Tue Jan 31 2006 - 00:01:39 CST
