Virtualizing Business-Critical Database Applications - ReadWriteCloud

This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the case study about how Intel Xeon processors and VMware deliver unprecedented reliability in the face of RAM errors.

You might feel stuck, if you have large and business-critical database applications on expensive UNIX RISC systems. The number of applications running on virtualized systems has jumped, but many businesses have questioned whether industry-standard Intel-based servers could deliver the performance needed to consolidate applications via virtualization.

Principled Technologies did a study to see if VMware vSphere on Xeon could meet the challenge. They ran four large database applications simultaneously, each with a 200GB database in its own virtual machine. Wonder how they did?

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