RE: Moving Oracle server from HPUX/Solaris to AIX

Thanks all for the responses so far. Our SA lead is asking if Oracle differentiates between AIX on a P5 with "POWER5+" CPUs versus a BladeCenter JS21 with "PowerPC" CPUs. I couldn't find any difference in the Oracle software order or support for AIX, but can anyone confirm this? Anyone running Oracle 10gR2 under AIX on IBM BladeCenter?

Thx again!
Rich

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> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:23 PM
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> Subject: Moving Oracle server from HPUX/Solaris to AIX
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> Hey all,
>
> The hammer has fallen and I've just been told that our ERP system's DB
> will be AIX. We're currently on HPUX, with several other DBs on
> Solaris, and I've never even logged into an AIX box (I can barely
spell
> it). So, I'm trying to get a head start before the hardware's even
> ordered by doing some homework. And what better place to start than
> here? :) I have a few questions:
>
> 1) How far behind Solaris are Oracle releases/fixes on AIX or are they
> behind at all? I seem to remember that AIX was second or third tier,
> but haven't been able to find anything on oracle.com or google.
>
> 2) Any good links to subtleties betwixt Solaris and/or HPUX, and AIX?
> Goofy but helpful stuff like "Solaris likes putting files in /var,
HPUX
> in /etc". Web links I've found (including one on IBM) are slightly
> dated, comparing Solaris 8 to AIX 4 and sometimes 5.2. We're probably
> going with 5.3.
>
> 3) Any gotchas for Oracle management? Without bloating this post with
> too many specifics, I would hope bash and the standard Unix utils
needed
> for Oracle management scripts like hotbacks and log checkers would be
> available. Memory managemnt like semaphores and kernel parms I would
> assume would be tunable in any decent Unix...
>
> Thoughts? Thx!
> Rich
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