RE: Solars Zones and Oracle

I have been debating this issue with one of the best Unix Architects for a couple of years now. We have seen the container/zone model advocated for the reasons below, over the last couple of years

1. Servers have gotten more powerful and therefore allocating a whole server to an application will over allocate and result in server proliferation.
2. Once a server is allocated to an Application/Owner it is politically impossible to take it back and therefore give them a virtual server
3. Isolation - applications co-located in a server do not cohabit the OS instance.

The most compelling was #2 above but in terms of resource management and long term administration it was better to administer it with Oracle RAC w/ ASM. Another consideration is that zone architecture allows you to put more in one server. To protect this, I found it cost effective and convenient to use Oracle RAC, since I could achieve better databases/server density.

Regards,
-Krish

Krish Hariharan
President/Executive Architect, Quasar Database Technologies, LLC http://www.linkedin.com/in/quasardb

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Keith Pierno
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:10 AM
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Subject: Re: Solars Zones and Oracle

I have been running our Grid Control servers in Zones for almost a year and have not had any issues with doing so. The key to running Oracle in a zone is that the zone admin needs to setup the zone to have its own copy of any common directory that Oracle needs to write to (/var, /usr/local). The biggest limitation of zones is the lack of ability to control hardware resource from within a child zone, so this only affects RAC. If you wish to run RAC on a server configured with zones you will have to use the global zone since this is the only zone that has any direct hardware control.

I hope this helps.

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Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:55:11 -0700
From: "Brian MacLean" <bpmaclean.oracle_at_gmail.com> Subject: Solars Zones and Oracle

Solars Zones and Oracle......It's a whole new world for me. Any quick thoughts on this anyone?

Pro's; Con's; GotYa's; Stability; Performance (CPU and I/O) hit; FYI's; Dynamic resizing issues; etc. etc. etc.

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