[TriLUG] Need opinions for specs of a VM box

[David McDowell]

Your Oracle performs OK in a VM?  what VM host are you using and what
size is your DB and how do you measure that performance?  I ask b/c
there are a bunch of LUG'ers who are swearing no to DB's in a VM, but
with our small MSSQL implementation, I'm not so sure it's gonna be a
big deal.

David


On 7/26/07, Ron Joffe <rjoffe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 July 2007 08:04, wayy2be wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >   I am wanting to purchase a desktop for my home that will be able to
> > handle running 4 or more VM's so that I can set up a network and do labs.
> > Which route would be the best to go in terms of ram, hd space etc. I need
> > help with the specs.  Thanks,
> >
> >   Rob
> >
>
> Rob, as others have mentioned, it really depends on which VM's you are
> running.
>
> Here is our spec for our production VM Server:
>
> 8 GB Ram
> 2 Dual Core 3.0 Ghz Xeon Processors
> 4 300GB SCSI drives in a Raid 10
>
> We run the following VM's on a regular basis:
>
>   Oracle Database VM          - 3.6GB memory allocation
>   SLED Desktop VM             - 1.0GB memory allocation
>   SLES-9 File / Print VM      - 0.5GB memory allocation
>   Debian TWiki VM             - 0.2GB memory allocation
>   SLES-9 VPN VM               - 0.1GB memory Allocation
>   SLES-9 CVS VM               - 0.5GB memory Allocation
>   Win2K Accounting VM         - 0.2GB memory Allocation
>   Kubuntu Test VM             - 0.5GB memory Allocation
>
> And power on the a large number of other VM's (Win2K, WinXP, SLES-9, SLES-10,
> etc) as needed for testing.
>
> Load average on this box hovers between 2 and 3. Performance is very
> acceptable for all of the required applications.
>
> Hope this helps provide a real world example. If I have a fixed budget for a
> VM server, I would first make sure I have plenty of ram, and then spend my
> money on CPU, last would be disk space.
>
> Ron
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