Re: Oracle on windows 2003 on vmware

  • From: Jason Heinrich <jheinrich@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 15:41:16 -0600

I came to the same conclusion.  Fine for test and development, not so good
for a live box.  Still, Ron did indicate that they would be using ESX server
on production, so that would remove the host OS from the equation and speed
things up a bit.  Out of curiosity Ron, what VMWare product were you using
in your testing?


On 1/3/07 3:23 PM, Carlson, Todd wrote:

> We looked into Oracle on VMware and came to the conclusion that it wasn¹t a
> good idea for performance reasons. VMware adds an additional and slow IO layer
> between oracle and the platters: VMware -> OS -> LVM -> Disk. As a result, IO
> performance is not good. We do use this setup for development and test
> databases where performance is not important.



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Jason Heinrich
Oracle Database Administrator
Pensacola Christian College
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