Hi Marion, Hmmm as far as I knew Oracle is not porting all of their stuff to Solaris x86 and are heavily dug into RH Linux. In fact as you may know they have their own Distro of "Oracle Unbreakable RH Linux". This is what Oracle basically wants everyone to run their products on and which is why I did not think they were going to support much of their tech stack on Solaris x86. Please correct me if I am wrong though!
So you are saying that the X4200 you have is x86 based and you are running Oracle on Solaris x86? Are you running just the Oracle RDBMS or the whole Application Stack (ie: 11i)? As for why the separate instances/environments, like I said this is for our Dev and UAT instances. We have roughy 150 Prod Servers so that means we could easily use 300 separate Dev or UAT environments. By going "Virtual" we could easily scale down our hardware and host those 300 environments on 100 physical servers each one hosting 3 qemu or vmware environments. "Virtual" is definitely the trend lately. We probably will not run Prod environments on virtual hosts yet Dev and UAT will work fine. Thx! Tom Marion Hakanson wrote: >briglia at stanford.edu said: > > >>On the other hand we are starting to look at virtualizing some of our Dev >>and UAT environments to save on HW costs. One of the other Architects on my >>Team owns the project and he has been focused on running VMWare using RH >>Linux for both the Host and Guest Operating Systems. >> >>Stanford is a Solaris/Linux/Oracle shop so the virtual environments will >>need to be Oracle RH Linux that will support an Oracle install. >> >> > >Why not run Oracle on Solaris-x86 directly? We recently consolidated >three racks of old SPARC servers, hosting 6 small instances of Oracle, >onto a single Sun X4200, with each Oracle instance in its own zone. >The DBA's say performance is faster. > >Sorry QEMU isn't involved, but why run six separate OS instances, each >kernel taking up its own slice of RAM and disk space, each requiring >separate patching and maintenance, when you can do it with a single OS? >Solaris OS is free (even the regular Solaris-10 release, not only Open >Solaris) -- Red Hat EL is not free, even to EDU's. Red Hat doesn't >have ZFS yet, either. > >Regards, > >Marion > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/qemu-discuss/attachments/20071031/cec2a54a/attachment.html>
