Re: just a question (virtual machines)
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:47:28 +1000
Message-ID: <gue7vt$eqb$1_at_news.motzarella.org>
gs wrote,on my timestamp of 13/05/2009 7:33 AM:
>
> If you were told you were going to all vm's for database servers, would
> you be comfortable with VMware or would you fight tooth & nail to go
> with Oracle's?
Oracle's. VMWare is not supported by Oracle. Period.
We had a release 7 WinNT db running under VMWare and it was the pits, with performance all over the place, unpredictable, erratic.
That db is now with 10g in AIX and I don't even bother about it other than checking logs and space: it runs perfectly and without a snag anywhere. Very small db by today's standards, only 12GBs. I merged it with a few others into a single Oracle instance. Total size is now around 90GB. No problem whatsoever. Would hate to still be running this in VM... Received on Wed May 13 2009 - 05:47:28 CDT