Re: oracle and vmware

nicolas.rolland_at_gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thank you all for your responses.
>
> The primary problem is that our "test" environment is down 95% of the
> time, because of cross usage for maintenance, patch, tests etc.
>
> So ideally having a second (3rd, nth..) virtualized environment for
> testing would be the ideal solution as it would help each division to
> test their feature without interfering with each others.
>
> Obviously I don't hope to have a perfect replica of such a machine, but
> I wonder how easy it is to strip down the hardware to a point which is
> virtualisation-capable.
>
> I must say I have no idea on what it takes to serve a 1 Terabyte Oracle
> database....
>

Have you checked to see if your server can be partitioned as I suggested earlier in this thread? With 30GB of physical RAM, I'm thinking that you do have a high-end Sun server, in which the OS can be partitioned. This would be preferrable, in my opinion, than running some sort of VM-ware on this server. I can't say for certain if your server support OS partitioning, but I'd check it out.

Cheers,
Brian

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