Re: Fwd: RE: convert big endian to medium endian

Thanks a lot for all this information. I think it is at first worth to see if the patch suggested by J. Lewis will make the metadata export faster. I think if we get the export in less than 24 hours, we will be more than happy.

Thanks and regards
Ahmed

Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> schrieb am So., 9. Feb. 2020, 18:08:

>
> On 2/9/20 6:55 AM, Ahmed Fikri wrote:
>
> I think what would be problematic for us is the import of the metadata (I
> have no idea how long it will take, but with regard to the export time, I
> can expect that it will take a long time).
>
> But I think the idea is also a good option for us. I think we will find a
> way to synchronize both DBs after the migration.
>
> I will report about which option we have chosen and how the migration went
> (if we did it).
>
>
> There is another solution which can be done entirely by RMAN, without the
> need for the big endian/little endian mess:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power/os/linux
>
> You can use Linux on Power systems which would bring you to the desired
> OS. In my opinion, the architecture of the IBM
>
> Power systems is superior to the architecture any x86_64 based systems,
> especially when it comes to IO. There is also something called "Blue Cloud"
> and IBM can help you with moving your Oracle databases to the x86_64 based
> systems in the Blue Cloud. You know that Red Hat is owned by IBM? Later
> versions of AIX are extremely similar to Linux. The last one with which I
> have some experience is AIX 7.2. It has bash, less, GNU tools, strace and
> /proc file system. This would look a lot like Linux if it wasn't for the
> AIX kernel, different parameters and SMIT. I was always annoyed by "topas"
> on AIX systems instead of "top" which is found on all other operating
> systems. IBM did a fair amount of porting themselves: Nigel's monitor
> ("nmon") is available on Linux and so are JFS and GPFS, the last one being
> a commercial product which must be licensed.
>
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