Re: Sun Servers

Ronan,

we have deployed a couple of X4-2L for a customer - environment is 11.2.0.4 on Solaris 11.1 x86_64. I have been very impressed with what the Solaris 11.1/Zones/ZFS combination provides. We have the database servers on the X4-2L mounting a ZFS storage server over dNFS via a 10G and 1G combiation. The X4-2L have been provisioned with 4xF80 flash cards in them as well that have allowed us to allocate specific flash devices to different zones as required. It is a very powerful and flexible platform to deploy databases and application servers on.

Regards,

Mark

On 9 Jul 2014, at 8:19 am, Ronan Merrick <merrickronan1_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for replying Jack.
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> Pretty much the same move I am looking at - Dell/Red Hat to Sun/OEL.
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> They will be standalone servers though not ODA's.
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> Ronan
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> On 8 Jul 2014 23:11, "Jack Applewhite" <jack.applewhite_at_austinisd.org> wrote:
> We've moved all our 20+ databases from RedHat Linux Dell servers to two new X4-2 ODAs - Oracle Linux on Sun servers. We're happy so far. The ODA environment is a lot more restrictive than just a standalone server. However, it is simpler.
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> To: Andrew Kerber
> Cc: Matthew Zito; oracle-l
> Subject: Re: Sun Servers
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> Thanks Andrew.
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> I'll keep that in mind.
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> Factory install of Oracle Linux is an option. I did all my OCP practicing and testing on Oracle Linux and I liked it.
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> Ronan
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> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, then I have no opinion on that particular line. My irritations stem from the Sun OS.
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> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Matthew Zito <matt_at_crackpotideas.com> wrote:
> Note that the X4-2 server *is* an Intel server, it's not one of the SPARC line of processors.
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> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I am really not fond of Sun servers. In my experience they are less powerful then similarly priced intel servers, plus they have their own set of foibles that are irritating.
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