Re: Oracle Exadata Top Three Selling points

From: Steve Harville <steve.harville_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:44:45 +0000
Message-ID: <CAGd4=DTNEVEab4UbweHjYEJov2v2V_LiuixDmTZTy4QU-5J1qw_at_mail.gmail.com>

I think the biggest advantage in using Exadata is that the storage and network administration for the RAC cluster does *not* depend on the network team and the storage team getting things right.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 12:31 PM Mayen Shah <mshah_at_travelclick.com> wrote:

> Even though quality of oracle platinum team support/monitoring/patching is
> questionable, that is added benefit.
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> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *On Behalf Of *rob_at_oraclewizard.com
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> *Subject:* Oracle Exadata Top Three Selling points
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Now my director is asking for the three top bullet points to take to his
> boss. On why we should go to Exadata.
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> 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.
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> - Performance.
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> - Operational maintenance (one big server as apposed to 40+ servers
> scattered over diffrent versions and OS's)
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> - Make the DBA staff happy. :-)
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> -Rob
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