Re: Oracle 10g on Microsoft's Virtual Server

From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter_at_googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:49:02 +0200
Message-ID: <4n80vuF92n16U1@individual.net>

On 18.09.2006 17:34, Brian Peasland wrote:
> The upsides include: One, software running in one VM won't interact with
> software in another VM. Two, software running in a VM is insulated from
> the server's OS.

Three, you can get failover and high availability. VMWare offers a product which lets you cluster servers and if one of the machines goes down other machines can take over the VM's of the crashed instance. Probably doesn't make much sense with Oracle's own clustering though.

Kind regards

robert Received on Mon Sep 18 2006 - 11:49:02 CDT