Hello, It is irrelevant whether the DB is virtual or physical. Modern virtual environments are as good as a physical host and in many organisations, applications will be deployed to virtual hosts whether you like it or not. If a global investment bank can run trading systems on virtual hardware, ITSM can run on it too.
The important discussion to have is what resource is attached to your virtual environment. ie if it has a couple dedicated cores (I carefully do not use the term CPU), lots of memory and a physical disc partition mounted to the virtual host, look elsewhere for the problem. Virtual environments offer so much more than physical, such as restoration of a host within a minute of a physical host failing, snapshots of the OS on every reboot and the ability to add additional cores/memory in 10 minutes. It's easy to see why it's hard to justify the requirement for a physical host and while the features make them an obvious choice, organisations can scale vertically to reduce costs (such as Oracle Weblogic "per physical core" licensing). John -- Single Sign On for AR System http://www.javasystemsolutions.com/jss/ssoplugin _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
