Re: Oracle and cpu/core

From: Woody McKay <woody.mckay_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 18:04:42 -0500
Message-ID: <CAAxONsREMW++cezRgDg4C9ZOhDrd1ou016hTD_vK9jUZKk1bsg_at_mail.gmail.com>



Hi Angelo,

Thanks for the thoughts. This project will use 12.1.0.2 + Oct CPU patches for DB and OJVM.

Yeah, nightly backups will be an issue. I've recommended thinking about a hardware solution. One thought was something like a 3 disk mirror and just snapping off a disk each night. This issue is still being debated.

Will for sure do the pros and cons and present.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 3:33 PM, angelo <angelolistas_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Woody,
>
> Oel and multitenant sounds good, with 12c
>
> By the way, on this project will they use 12c or 11g ?
>
> About Windows, what about the cpu, I think it will stuck...
>
> let´s enumerate the cons, not the pros..
>
> => would be hard to manage..
>
> => Could they imagine how to do an backup of all these databases ? Or
> running an export ? What do they do when the database grows? multiply by
> 96
>
> => 96 IPs makes things very complicated.. you will need a class C range
> to attend them.
>
>
> Well, my sugestion, do a annotation of all pros and cons..and show them
>
> Good luck with this project
>
> regards
>
> angelo
>
>
>
> On 4 November 2015 at 17:29, Woody McKay <woody.mckay_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Angelo,
>>
>> Yes it is a stand alone. Actually it will be leased through RackSpace.
>> They are helping with the design and will be with the hosting team for the
>> day-to-day support.
>>
>> They are also talking about switching to OEL and multi-tenant in a year
>> or two. But, stuck with Windoz for now...
>>
>> As an update, some on the list will remember my question a couple of
>> weeks ago on listeners. I was able to convince them to go with one
>> listener per SID. But, instead of 96 ports, they want to use 96 IP's. I
>> checked with Oracle support and they said as long as the IP:Port combo was
>> unique that they would support it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:45 PM, angelo <angelolistas_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My opinion.. They are crazy...
>>>
>>> So many instances on the same server, Windows server .. (is it stand
>>> alone ?)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4 November 2015 at 16:40, Woody McKay <woody.mckay_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Our hosting unit is designing a large server and want to put about 96
>>>> SID's on it. They've worked through I/O and RAM considerations. This is
>>>> on Win 64 2012 R2.
>>>>
>>>> However, they are not sure about cpu/core count and usage. They
>>>> currently have 64 cores and need to know how many of the cores will each
>>>> SID (oracle.exe) can/will use. If a SID can't use all cores, then what's
>>>> the best way to spread the SIDs across all the cores. I talked about cpu
>>>> groups, but they said that Oracle always picks cpu group 0 on startup and
>>>> they have to manually reassign the groups to each oracle.exe process.
>>>>
>>>> I've only had about 40 SIDs on a box with 24 cores, so I don't really
>>>> have the experience to provide the best answers.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts? Thanks
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> WoodyMcKay
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> WoodyMcKay
>>
>
>

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Sincerely,

WoodyMcKay

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