[TriLUG] Need opinions for specs of a VM box

[Brian McCullough]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:49:52PM -0400, David McDowell wrote:
> 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.

I don't have any problems with PostgreSQL in a Xen VM supporting
the Postfix/Amavis/Maia system.  Obviously, I am not supporting 10,000
users with a single machine, either.


Brian