Re:OT: Hardware for DB server

From: <dgoulet_at_vicr.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 07:15:48 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.003866AD.20010907052137@fatcity.com>

Jan,

I'm not totally sure on all of what your asking, but that's OK, my recommendation would be:

HP-9000 L2000 2 way

Support is great, especially if you buy into Predictive Support but that can get costly depending on your needs. Upgrades are available and are easy. These machines were built around being changeable. The only time you really have a problem is if the bus card which sits in the absolute middle of the box goes bad, Haven't seen that happen yet. Otherwise just pop open the front or back lid and replace what needs replacing. I believe they're going for around US$ 20K right about now (don't quote me on that) and you'll need to add in some storage array. Our standard here is EMC which gets expensive as well, but we have not had a single down on that system since it arrived two years ago. Almost makes you want to stop using archivelog mode.

Dick Goulet

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Author: Jan Pruner <jan_at_pruner.cz>
Date:       9/7/2001 4:55 AM

Hi all,
        I have to buy new db server.

I'm using Oracle on *nix with cca 10GB db for 3-tier architecture software. The IS will have about 300-500 users (parallel cca 200) and the operations are mostly transactional.
My question is about HW.
Have I use Intel or Sparc?
What do you recommend and what's your experience with support, upgrade and TCO? Thanks

Jan Pruner
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