The following table shows the vCPU and memory allocation settings in the VMware configurations specific to our Oracle testing environment:
Table 3. Virtual machines used for RAC validation
Node type |
Database type |
Virtual machine number |
vCPU reservations |
vMem reservations (GB) |
DB memory reservation (GB) |
Production RAC node1 |
Oracle |
VM 1 |
8 |
256 |
128 |
Production RAC node2 |
Oracle |
VM 2 |
8 |
256 |
128 |
Development (snapshot of production) |
Oracle |
VM 3 |
8 |
256 |
128 |
Development |
Oracle |
VM 4 |
8 |
256 |
128 |