Has anywone run sqlanywhere (any version) in a virtural machine

Question

My clients it department wants to move the database for my application to virtual partition. If you have done this what are the issues you ran into (performance, backups, replication). Currently running ASA 8 but upgrading to ASA 11 in near future.

Answer 1

Hi,

I'm running SQL Anywhere 9 and up in VMWare for testing purposes (for our development tool Database Workbench), no problems so far. I guess that with modern multi-core processors and lots of memory, this shouldn't be a problem. You can ran all normal SQL Anywhere tools or other tools.

Depending on what virtual machine software you're using, you can use physical disks or virtual disks (through the host OS).

Then again, I'm not pushing my SQL Anywhere to any limit, but it seems to be working fine.