We are getting ready (or at least entertaining the idea of) to switch to Oracle 11g on RHEL. We understand that this is a very successful configuration in the IT world currently. We are wanting to run this on ESX and will thus be adding additional licensed copies to our environment should this be the final direction.
1. Is this a good fit for VMWare (i.e. are you folks doing it currently?)
2. We will be running EPM (PeopleSoft) on this and we understand that it is fairly intensive model building and data warehousing.
3. We have been told that it will require major cpu and ram but, like everything else, this is generally not the case once you put it on VMWare as you end up seeing how little of it gets used.
I would appreciate any and all answers/thoughts. We will also be looking at professional help for this implementation should we go down this path so any suggestions you have along these lines would be appreciated too.
Thanks!