9.2.3 Separate Test/Development and Production Environments

Oracle recommends that test and development environments be hosted on a separate physical Oracle Exadata Rack from the rack hosting the production database.

An Oracle Exadata system dedicated to development and test is ideal. Test masters and their associated Exadata Snapshots would be hosted on this system. Alternatively it may be an Oracle Exadata system that hosts Oracle Data Guard standby databases for high availability, disaster recovery, or other purposes as permitted by capacity. Test masters and their snapshots may reside in either physical or virtual machines on an Oracle Exadata system.