Re: Linux VM Sizing

Thank you everyone for the advice so far!

Sam

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM Deepak Goel <deicool(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
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>> On Mon, 2025-07-28 at 16:41 -0700, Sam Stearns wrote:
>> > We are sizing a Linux VM to migrate our Oracle production database to.
>> We are
>> > currently running on an Oracle Database Appliance. Oracle CPU / memory
>> usage stats are:
>> >
>> > CPU % usage - 25% of 20 cores / 40 threads (Intel® Xeon® S4314
>> processor)
>> > Memory % usage - 100% usage of 600G SGA
>> >
>> > Based on the above can anyone give advice as to how to size the CPU /
>> memory of the Linux VM, please?
>>
>> Choose something that is about as strong as the old hardware.
>>
>> If you find that the old machine is too strong for the current
>> Oracle workload, you can also downsize.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Laurenz Albe
>>
>>
>>

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