I am about to purchase a Sun Fire X4440 with 4 quad CPUs, 64GB, 8x146GB disks (decided it was better to go for CPU and memory over the X4240 with 2 quad CPUs, 32GB, 16x146GB disks) to run several databases for teaching purposes (University), but the problem is that some of there databases are not available for (Open)Solaris. My plan is to run to virtual systems on top of (Open)Solaris - Oracle 11g on linux in a xVM or VirtualBox - DB2 on Windows in a xVM or VirtualBox - MySQL in a zone (Open)Solaris - Postgres in a zone (Open)Solaris My questions is there any reason why Oracle/DB2 will not run very well on a virtual system, since memory/CPU should not be a problem. I will naturally move all to (Open)Solaris in the end, but I want to see if the above would work otherwise I will have to go for different hardware. Thanks Andrew This message posted from opensolaris.org
Oracle should work, not comparably well to bare metal though. There''s also licensing issues with running it in that type of setup. You''ll want to try before buying Oracle if that''s possible. Put some pressure on them, they used to put out Solaris version first but gave into the hype. As for DB2, I thought there was a linux version. Have you checked out BrandZ as well, you might be able to get it running under BrandZ Linux Containers (Zones). James On Jun 21, 2008, at 6:19 AM, Andrew Watkins wrote:> I am about to purchase a Sun Fire X4440 with 4 quad CPUs, 64GB, > 8x146GB disks (decided it was better to go for CPU and memory over > the X4240 with 2 quad CPUs, 32GB, 16x146GB disks) to run several > databases for teaching purposes (University), but the problem is > that some of there databases are not available for (Open)Solaris. > > My plan is to run to virtual systems on top of (Open)Solaris > - Oracle 11g on linux in a xVM or VirtualBox > - DB2 on Windows in a xVM or VirtualBox > - MySQL in a zone (Open)Solaris > - Postgres in a zone (Open)Solaris > > My questions is there any reason why Oracle/DB2 will not run very > well on a virtual system, since memory/CPU should not be a problem. > > I will naturally move all to (Open)Solaris in the end, but I want to > see if the above would work otherwise I will have to go for > different hardware. > > Thanks > > Andrew > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org
I thought I would post an update. I am trying running Oracle 11g on Windows 2003 using VirtualBox on a Sun Fire X4150 (Solaris 5/08 8GB). Well not very well at the moment. During the Oracle install the whole system hangs and after a power cycle there is no log files at all. Going to give it another go with a fixed size virtual hard disk and on a non RAID 5 disk and then may try without a network and then see if I can try it with opensolaris. For information I create the vnic via: tunctl -t tap0 ifconfig tap0 plumb brdgadm -a e1000g0 brdgadm -a tap0 ifconfig tap0 up Sorry I know this has not got nothing to do with OpenSolaris or Xen, but I will post my updates here just in case it helps anyone else. Andrew This message posted from opensolaris.org
Andrew, it''s worth talking to the VirtualBox developers about this (perhaps vbox-users@virtualbox.org).
Andrew Watkins wrote:> I thought I would post an update. I am trying running Oracle 11g on Windows 2003 using VirtualBox on a Sun Fire X4150 (Solaris 5/08 8GB). > > Well not very well at the moment. During the Oracle install the whole system hangs and after a power cycle there is no log files at all. > > Going to give it another go with a fixed size virtual hard disk and on a non RAID 5 disk and then may try without a network and then see if I can try it with opensolaris. > > For information I create the vnic via: > tunctl -t tap0 > ifconfig tap0 plumb > brdgadm -a e1000g0 > brdgadm -a tap0 > ifconfig tap0 up > > Sorry I know this has not got nothing to do with OpenSolaris or Xen, but I will post my updates here just in case it helps anyone else. > > Andrew > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > xen-discuss@opensolaris.org >Looks like you''re forwarding a tun/tap interface directly to a vnic for use with xVM. OpenVPN? Vnic''s are created dynamically unless you need to manually configure it for one reason or another. In this case you''re bridging, I''m just curious why. James
On 25 Jun 2008, at 4:37pm, James Cornell wrote:> Vnic''s are created dynamically unless you need to manually configure > it > for one reason or another. In this case you''re bridging, I''m just > curious why.Andrew is running Solaris 10. There are no VNICs there.
You are right Solaris 10 does not have vnic so the only way I can get network access for my guest is to follow the instruction which I got from "VirtualBox v1.6 on Solaris 10 5/08 AMD64 with tap" http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=6748&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=tap0 on how to get network access for the guest o/s. It seems to work (unless I have got it complete wrong!). Anyway, I think I need to forget the whole idea: 1) I think the network side of things causes the crash problems. It may work better in OpenSolaris, since I switch off the network and I got Oracle up and running. I my try it on my desktop which I have OpenSolaris with Windows XP as a guest after I have done a backup!! 2) The 2G limit of memory in VirtualBox makes things slow. 3) VirtualBox only runs on one core (I have a 2 x Intel Xeon quads) so again things are slow for Windows & Oracle. Thanks Andrew (If this gets repeated I am sorry, but I did not see the original post appear) This message posted from opensolaris.org