[BlueOnyx:08616] Re: XenServer

[Jeff Jones]

How good is the HA?

It's the only VM platform that Oracle will support their database on!

Lets just say that it works!

Cheers,

Jeff

On 26 Sep 2011, at 16:16, Colin Jack wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
> 
>> Could I recommend you take a peak at Oracle VM - they have just released
>> version 3.0.
>> 
>> It's free to download (full enterprise stack) - if you want updates you'll need to
>> pay around £400 per year for a dual socket server. If you have servers with
>> more than two sockets it's double. Might sound expensive but you can load 2TB
>> (yes Terrabytes) of RAM into a OVM host and still not pay any more than the
>> base £800 per year price there are no extras.
>> 
>> It's good for Linux and Windows, and runs XEN 4.0.
>> 
>> Oracle acquired Virtual Iron a few years ago, so much of the VI 'goodness' has
>> finally ended up in OVM 3.0.
>> 
> 
> Sounds interesting - I will take a look. How seamless is the HA?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Colin
> 
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