Re: Oracle on windows 2003 on vmware

Now: Oracle on Linux. Linux on the hardware. 2 hops.
Then: Oracle on Linux. Linux on VMWare. VMWare on Win2003. Win2003 on the hardware. 4 hops. 
Right?
Perhaps the said kid wants to play with the OS stacking because his life is too steady and quiet. Or he/she/it thinks that Oracle DBA's life is too quiet and steady. Or both of them need some extreme urgently... :-) Ron?
In other words - where is an(-y) ADVANTAGE in the new schema? Except an easy (?) movement to another VMWare server? Do they optimize the movements? 

Looks like April the 1st joke, isn't it?

--Andrey


Niall Litchfield wrote:
Perhaps they just like OS's that have a large pool of experienced and cheap administrators and not OS's that seem to generate a large pool of expensive evangelists.
On 1/3/07, *Kerber, Andrew* <Andrew.Kerber@xxxxxxx <mailto:Andrew.Kerber@xxxxxxx>> wrote: 

    Yeah, my advice is don't do it.  Linux to Windows?  Is this guy a
    MS employee perhaps?


    Andrew W. Kerber
    Oracle DBA
    UMB

    "If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving"

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    List,

    Our corporate wiz kid has decided to migrate our Oracle 10g
    database from Linux to Windows2003 on Vmware.

    Are there any special setup instruction needed to make this work
    properly? Any references that I might have missed? I searched the
    OTN but did not find anything that jumped out at me.
Linux server. 1 CPU, 4 GIG ram, 3 internal mount points for data. Oracle setup with 1.6 GIG SGA 


    Windows VMWARE server. 1 CPU, 4 GIG ram, 3 mount points on SAN(2
    fiber channel 1 SATA) data. Oracle setup with 1.6 GIG SGA


    Both servers have the same tables, partitions, and data loaded on
    one mount point. In the Windows case it is the SATA SAN.

    I set timing on.

    I run the query select count(*) from a table that has 500,000,000
    records and

     Linux = 4 min, 24.83 seconds

    Windows = 19 min,53.19 seconds


    The results are proportionatly the same for the other tables that
    have millions of records.


    Is there any helpful hints that we might have missed when we set
    up the VMWARE ESX server for windows/oracle?


    When I google for VMWARE and Oracle the results are for Linux and
    RAC not windows. Maybe they are trying to tell me something.


    Any usefull suggestions?

    Thanks,

    Ron Rogers

    DBA

    Georgia Lottery Corp.

    404-215-5072

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