Good info to know and excellent replies so far- this is exactly what I'm looking for. Kellyn Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lidh <kevin.lidh@xxxxxxxxx> Sender: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:44:59 To: <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: kevin.lidh@xxxxxxxxx Cc: <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>; <kjped1313@xxxxxxxxx>; oracle Freelists<oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: OEMGC on VM with Windows 2008 Server We have a 10.2.0.4 Grid environment running on a VM on an ESX server and have for a couple years. We have a copy of the VM in our DR site so we can bring it up in case of a disaster. The only issue we've run into is the DR copy. I activated it once and every morning around 2am, the OC4J_EM process would consume 100% CPU and die. It turns out that our 100 Windows VMs all do their virus scanning at the exact same time. Before I figured out the virus scanner, I had a SR open with Oracle. They had me upgrade to 10.2.0.5.0 and it didn't change anything. I applied a patch and also upgraded to 11g. Then it was a different process which pegged the CPU and died but the end result was the same. Kevin Lidh On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jeffrey Beckstrom <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > We are running GC 10.2.0.5 on a windows VM Ware server without problems. > The database is on a separate X64 server. > > Jeffrey Beckstrom > Database Administrator > Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority > 1240 W. 6th Street > Cleveland, Ohio 44113 > > >>> Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> 9/24/10 1:21 PM >>> > > I Have an APEX I use for development on a VM on my personal LAN and it > works fairly well... mind you, it's not a full load test server, for that I > have the production LAN in which I have an LPAR for dev/test purposes. > > Both the dev/test and prod OEMGC are on LPARs which are virtual servers but > far better than VMW. > > I have ran APEX on HTTP Server (back in 10.2.0.3 days) for production and > it was stable... it required some tweaking on the VM side, but it should be > fairly simple. > > On the other hand, you can try Oracle VM, which in theory works ok with > OEMGC. > > I used to have a OEMGC in a portable VM so when I got to a customer's > office I'd fire it up and have a working OMS there... it was a ugly config > and it usually had no more than three or four targets, but it worked. (I've > since stopped visiting small customers and started working for very large > corporations, so having a full LPAR or seven for the Grid is possible)... > > I guess the answer there depends on the number of targets you are planning > to have. > > hth > Alan.- > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Kellyn Pedersen <kjped1313@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> Ello everyone! >> Just a little pro-active research here...:) The boss is investigating and >> would like to test building our OEMGC on a VM, (VMWare, paid version 4 or >> they are researching the free version, but that makes me a bit nervous...) >> This is version 10.2.0.5 on the OEM and also house our RMAN catalog. >> This VM server would also be home for our 11g, (11.0.7.0) Apex and an >> open source 10.2.0.4 ODBC bridge to SQL Server. >> My previous experience with OEM on a VM server was not very positive, >> but it was a couple years ago and due to, (my theory here...) >> misconfiguration of the resources that allowed the OEM VM to be starved for >> the resources in CPU and memory it required to run 24/7. >> Anyone out there running OEM and/or Apex on VMWare or another VMServer? >> Any recommendations? Warnings? Risks and gotchas? I prefer to be as prepared >> as possible in the upcoming build vs. going in blind... :) >> Thanks! >> >> Kellyn Pedersen >> Sr. Database Administrator >> I-Behavior Inc. >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/kellynpedersen >> www.dbakevlar.blogspot.com >> >> >