[Info-Ingres] Running Ingres in a 'Virtual Server'

[Jim Gramling]

Running Ingres in a 'Virtual Server'You might want to check out Icebreaker ... http://downloads.ingres.com/media/PDFs/IcebreakerWP.pdf

Ingres Corp is billing it as naturally suited to virtualization, since it has a built-in, stripped-down operating system with a relatively small footprint, and a single install process.   The whitepaper linked above specifically discusses some of the supposed advantages in a virtual setting. The argument seems to have merit to me: for someone thinking of trying to "virtualize" an Ingres installation, it sounds like it would be the best hope (of course, depends on what else might be sharing the hardware!)

Regards,
Jim Gramling


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Richard Harden 
  To: info-ingres at kettleriverconsulting.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 1:49 AM
  Subject: [Info-Ingres] Running Ingres in a 'Virtual Server'


  Greetings All, 

  I have been told (yes, the rumour mill is working overtime) that our organization is looking at implementing virtual servers.

  Does anyone have an experiences/recommendations about running a production Ingres installation on a virtual server. 

  From my 'no-knowledge' position I would regard it as virtual suicide in terms of performance as the RDBMS would then have the vm software overhead, plus be competing with all other apps for actual resource

  Thoughts / experiences anyone? 




  Cheers 

  Richard 

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