Re: nutanix
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 15:38:03 -0500
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM, max scalf <oracle.blog3_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Our company is looking into moving towards converged platform instead of
integrated platform(like exadata i think?). I just wanted to reach out to the oracle list community and see if any one run oracle DB on nutanix converged platform, if so what are the pro and cons?
I don't have any experience with nunatix but it looks interesting from a quick glance over their website. Actually the idea of software-managed local data vs traditional SAN is very similar to exadata. However nunatix adds some additional layers with virtualization and dedupe and tiered I/O (flash, local, remote). Reminds me a little of nimble storage but with an integrated compute tier - neat. the biggest risk is simply that Oracle software just isn't optimized for this kind of platform. For example: the database optimizer calculated and uses systems stats, including I/O performance data - and it does not expect this I/O speed to jump all over while the underlying platform moves data between remote disk, local disk and local flash. Database performance could therefore be highly unpredictable and difficult to troubleshoot.
Personally I'd be hesitant for larger workloads but it could be a great win for consolidating lots of smaller workloads. With the list of clients on their website, there *must* be someone running oracle on nunatix who just isn't speaking up on the list. :) On the other hand, their market niche might be something else (big data?) and you might be an early adopter of running oracle on this platform... If so, then please let us know how it goes!
-J
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