ARRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!
Its like a nightmare ! Every other post is someone asking the exact same question !!!!
Kevin - I'm not trying to be rude - but I literally just answered yet ANOTHER vmware question about 30 seconds ago - just to see the EXACT SAME question pop up from yourself !
I would STRONGLY suggest you perform a search in this forum for "VMWare".
Key points :
1. Performance sucks, but its not supported.
2. There are limits to CPU/Memory/threads/disk and its not supported.
3. It might work but its not supported
4. Its not supported.
Oh yeah, and it might not be supported either.
I noted that many of your past posts are questions about whether XYZ would work (IE6, Windows 2000 etc etc) - I strongly suggest you march off to the knowledge garden (theres a link at
www.peoplesoft.com) and go to the "Minimum Technical Requirements" section. If it ain't listed, it ain't supported.
As for this specific question, perhaps you're not talking about EnterpriseOne ? If not, then I would also suggest talking to Oracle - since its their product - and asking them if putting a database on a virtual device is worth doing. They might tell you its not supported, they might tell you to use Oracle Virtualization as a product instead of VMWare.
Once you realize its not supported, stop and think about WHY its not supported. Remember, its a virtual machine, and there are limitations that VMWare has. It works well for "playing" in test and development - but never EVER attempt to implement a database on a VMWare machine.
Of course, if you don't believe me and you want to try for yourself - why not just download a VMWare oracle appliance and test it ? I am actually looking at the CentOS Oracle 10.2 VMWare image (just google for that) and it works pretty darn well for a "play" machine. Probably get about a total of 4 or 5 JDE users on the thing before it completely crashes.