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nicolas.rolland_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have at my workplace a 1 terabyte Oracle 9i database.
> It is currently running on a "big" solaris machine with 30Gb memory,
> and 20 processors.
>
>
> This setup is obviously not very flexible for testing purposes, and
> we'd like to virtualize this environment, maybe with vmware.
>
> Would anyone have any experience with that?
> What do you think are the minimum requirement for a 1 terabyte
> database?
>
>
> Thanks for your advices !
Nicolas, I've done some VMware stuff with Oracle, but nothing along your scale (not even without VMware!).
Somebody should correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you can now create ESX Server virtual machines with up to 4GB of memory - once again, just from memory. We do nothing close to that where I work.
There are other facilities for giving VMs direct access to physical disk - once again, something we just don't do where I'm at so somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think your best bet would be to contact VMware and/or hit their site at http://www.vmware.com. Something tells me they'de love to help you out on that one.
Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com
Received on Sat Sep 30 2006 - 12:12:26 CDT