[Infrastructures] A few questions

[Steve Herber]

Be wary of VMWare for a busy Oracle database.  Oracle, or any other 
resource intensive application, would tend to starve the other instances 
of that resource.  You don't want to have to explain to the CIO why 
performance on Oracle sucks.

Check out Xen for virtualization.  It has lots of support from IBM and 
other big Linux players.

Steve Herber	herber@thing.com		work: 206-221-7262
Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services	home: 425-454-2399

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Sean Kelly wrote:

> Seeing as the messages lately seem to be discussing what various
> technologies and methods we are all using, I'd like to throw these out
> there.
>
> What types of distributed filesystems, if any, are people using? I've been
> poking at OpenAFS, GFS, or just old fashioned file replication for our
> solution. OpenAFS looks rather nice, but complicated and very difficult for
> some operating systems such as FreeBSD.
>
> Is anybody out there making heavy use of VMWare? It is being suggested to
> us that we examine the usage of VMWare ESX as a means of virtualizing all
> of our servers, including Oracle. I was curious if anybody out there has
> experience in this area and can give some feedback on this.
>
> And finally, has anybody found the provisioning tools provided by the Red
> Hat Network website to be useful at all? To me, they seems somewhat decent
> but useless when you enter an environment with anything beyond RHEL
> systems.
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> -- 
> Sean M. Kelly
> UNIX Systems Architect
> Division of Information Technology
> Creighton University
> (402) 280-2264
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