Brian Peasland wrote:
> Doug Jones wrote:
>
>> I am looking for information pertaining to an Oracle install on Virtual
>> Server. Most of what I find is referring to VMware. Currently we have
>> 10g running on virtual server and I just have a few questions. Is this
>> a good place to ask? Can someone point me to some info on performance,
>> maintenance, etc?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Doug Jones
>>
>
> I have installed both Oracle 9i and 10g on Windows 2003's Virtual
> Server. It works quite nicely for testing. You do not need any
> additional documentation, because for all intents and purposes, you are
> just installing Oracle on Windows. It does not make a difference that it
> is a VM.
>
> You will need sufficient resources for the VM. But this is no different
> than installing Oracle on a server. Your VM needs sufficient memory and
> disk and CPU. Not having sufficient resources can lead to poor performance.
>
> Additionally, I would never recommend a VM for Oracle in production. I
> have only used this for a test platform and I would recommend the same.
> I wouldn't even use this for development, only for test.
>
>
>
> HTH,
> Brian
>

Interesting

I am getting pressured from our network/server admins to move some of
the smaller Oracle DB's on to virtual machines. I have so far refused
but did capitulate somewhat and have my OID (using for names
resolution)running on a VM. We are using VMware running on Linux with
Windows 2003 server as virtual machines. I do have test and dev
instances on VM's, and Oracle's reply to me when asked about support for
production databases on virtual machines is that they will support it,
with tha caveat that any problems must be reproduceable on non VM
machines(fair enough)

Our network/server admins are going the VM route as much as they can,
trying to leave only the hardest used servers on their own hardware.
This is also prodding the "lets switch to SQL Server then" mentality, as
it (supposedly) is supported on VM platforms.