VM planning

Determine VM configuration based on the requirements of service systems for CPUs, memory, disks, and NICs. The following information provides VM configuration examples.

SQL Server VM configuration

Table-1 VM configuration

Resource	Specification
Operating system	Windows Server 2016 64-bit
CPU	1 × 24 cores
Memory	168 GB
System disk	100 GB
SQL Server disk	See "Storage volume planning for the SQL Server database"
Disk type	VirtIO, intelligent
NIC	1 × high-speed NIC

MySQL VM configuration

Table-2 VM configuration

Resource	Specification
Operating system	CentOS 7.5
CPU	24 vCPUs
Memory	128 GB
System disk	100 GB
MySQL disk	See "Storage volume planning for the MySQL database"
Disk type	VirtIO, intelligent
NIC	1 × high-speed NIC

Oracle VM configuration

Table-3 VM configuration

Resource		Specification for standalone deployment	Specification for RAC deployment
Operating system	Red Hat 6.5		Red Hat 6.5
CPU	24 × 1 core		24 × 1 core
Memory	128 GB		160 GB
System disk	200 GB		200 GB
Oracle disk	See "Storage volume planning for the Oracle database"		See "Storage volume planning for the Oracle database"
Disk type	VirtIO		VirtIO
NIC	High-speed NIC		Two high-speed NICs, one using a private IP address and one using a public IP address