Re: Oracle Exadata Top Three Selling points
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:29:31 -0700
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Hey Rob,
My selling point that I offer you may also come back to haunt you if not addressed while doing the POC. Exadata is not "a hardware solution." If the code and application software isn't designed to take advantage of Exadata features, like offloading or the database team isn't keen on learning to support an engineered system, this could be very painful.
Having a "solid" set of features that benefit code design is an excellent selling point towards development. The developers must be on board to create code that will perform smart scans, use result cache effectively and if they're interested in in-memory, that would be beneficial. The existing code must perform well with a POC on an Exadata or they must be willing to address the code that could impact the consolidations. There always seems to be one or two specific databases that conflict with consolidations going smoothly.
If they are looking for an exadata to streamline their hardware admin resources to focus on and will spend the time to take care of it, pleasePLEASE get them to invest in Enterprise Manager, too. Not just for the DBAs, but for the entire IT group that will be involved. The monitoring, patching and provisioning will make the transition smoother and most people in the Exadata team would like to see EM go out the door with every Exadata.
Just my 2c... :)
Kellyn
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:18 AM, <rob_at_oraclewizard.com> wrote:
> I've put in a request for (2) Exadata 1/2 rack server (prod / dr ) and (2)
> 1/4 rack Exadata servers (SIT / DEV). My negotiation stated with full racks
> (really wanted 1/2 racks). It's moving forward to what I really want.
>
> Our current environment is 40+ Oracle 9i - 11g databases on what ever
> hardware the customer could pull together. So, there are a couple solaris
> boxes, quite a few windows database server and a linux server. each
> database running on it's own server. My evil plan is to pull the customer
> into 2016 kicking and screaming, migrating all these databases to 12C PDB
> to create a private DB cloud. The DBA, development staff and director is
> supporing my efforts.
>
> Now my director is asking for the three top bullet points to take to his
> boss. On why we should go to Exadata.
>
> What are your top three reasons to move to exadata. I want this to be
> strong; so there is quite likely some things I have not thought about.
>
> - Performance.
> - Operational maintenance (one big server as apposed to 40+ servers
> scattered over diffrent versions and OS's)
> - Make the DBA staff happy. :-)
>
> -Rob
>
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