Re: nutanix

From: Karl Arao <karlarao_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 16:07:06 -0500
Message-ID: <CACNsJnd8Na=1en78r+w7KLYSyoTO5uLwTtXsVDzOQZmtJVABHA_at_mail.gmail.com>

I remember emc acquired scaleio for this converged storage, I would say a competitor to nutanix.
BTW, some of the co-founders of nutanix are ex oracle who worked on the exadata platform. I can't remember how I got that info maybe on some of their tech webinars.

Once you get a POC of nutanix, maybe you can SLOB it then let us know how it goes ;)

-Karl

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Jeremy Schneider < jeremy.schneider_at_ardentperf.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM, max scalf <oracle.blog3_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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>
>

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