RE: oracle-l Digest V13 #15
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:45:43 -0500
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RAC is nice for HA and business continuity but I have seen very few systems that required it for performance reasons. They are out there but most running RAC would get better performance from a single instance with less costs.
Are you maxing out your cpus? In the past I've been able to disable cores in the BIOS and maintained performance. You'll have to verify with your licensing specialists as to whether that is within compliance with your contract.
These have been Intel bases systems running Linux.
On Jan 22, 2016 10:38 AM, "Sherrie Kubis" <Sherrie.Kubis_at_swfwmd.state.fl.us>
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> I should have noted this ahead.
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> The first step of budget cutting was to downsize from RAC to standalone
servers onto newer and more powerful hardware, and at this first
maintenance time we renegotiated our costs. However, it really didn't pay
off as much as they'd hoped. In each environment I've been able to drop
from 5-node RAC to single nodes running Oracle 12.1.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenny Payton [mailto:k3nnyp_at_gmail.com]
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> Subject: Re: oracle-l Digest V13 #15
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> A related side note. How efficiently are your database systems? Many
places I have been at are grossly oversized for what they need and
sometimes don’t even realize it. Are you running on ancient hardware that
could be upgraded to fewer much faster cores, potentially on a different
and more cost effective platform? Shrinking your footprint, while
improving performance, can dramatically shrink your TCO and reduce the
number of licenses you need to maintain. I’m currently looking at a system
that has over a 30 servers that could easily be consolidated to 3 or 4
while getting a considerable reliability and performance boost while
reducing TCO.
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> Sometimes tackling the problem from a different direction is more
rewarding and beneficial than tacking it head on.
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> Best of Luck
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> > On Jan 22, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Sherrie Kubis <
Sherrie.Kubis_at_swfwmd.state.fl.us> wrote:
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> > Hello all. I've been on this listserver for years and have learned
much from the expertise here. I'm a quiet member, mostly reading and
learning. Today I have a question that I'm merely gathering information on
for my management.
> >
> > For budget reasons they are considering dropping Oracle Maintenance at
renewal time. As this means also dropping Oracle Support, I'm directed to
investigate third-party Oracle Support providers, such as Rimini Street.
This comes with the realization that MOS, patches, security updates ... all
those things are no longer accessible. I'm still not sure how the
third-party support value works into what I'll need, but in the end I can
provide the facts and this is a business decision. I have many reasons to
maintain MOS and its benefits, but the overriding (and overwhelming) factor
of budget is the driving force.
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> > Does anyone have experience with third-party support vendors, or
additional information on what will no longer be accessible without
maintenance?
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> > sherrie.kubis_at_swfwmd.state.fl.us
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