Actually, yes, this is supposed to go production. This server was
purchased and virtual server was installed for the sole purpose of
moving all servers to VMs.

I would like to say that this isn't at all my idea . I am low (as low
as you can get) on the pecking order.

The server is a dual core 2.8ghz xeon, 5 gigs of RAM, and a network
storage of 1TB.

The only responsibility of this server (like how I say only?) will be a
webserver, network installs, and Oracle 10g.

>From what I have read so far, I should expect about 66% of the
performance of the host PC on the VM.

What should be taken into consideration before this goes production?
(In other words what technical information can I give the powers that
be stop the forward movement of this plan?

I want to know what the IO performance is of MS's Vserver.

We have the production DB on an old compaq server. We have migrated the
database to a test VM. As of right now, the database on the VM is about
5 times faster.


Thank you for all the input. Since I am totally in the dark, don't be
affraid to speak your mind. I am not biased at all in this topic. I
just want to better understand.

One other question. What size workload will oracle put on a PC? If it
is a database accessed by 100 people. The size of one of the backups
was 6 gbs.

Thanks again.


Doug Jones