Re: Architecture Question

From: David Cooley <n5xmt_at_nospambellsouth.net>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 22:09:17 -0400
Message-ID: <378013CD.376B10D9@nospambellsouth.net>

Our oracle server is an E4000, 10 270 MHz CPU's, 1.5G ram, 75G raid set-up with SUN VXVA as RAID 5.
The raid is made up of 4.2G drives... In the next couple months it will be upgraded to 9g drives, doubling it's capacity.

Dave wrote:
>

> Personally, I'd go for the formal dev. server. If you got an E4500
> (say) for your production OLTP app, consider scaling back to an E450
> for your dev/test box. If you go with a separate development box,
> memory (RAM) and cpu number will be important to keep your developers
> happy. Also, with Oracle, it is better to use many smaller drives
> than a single great-big-drive. And NEVER use Sun's Software RAID for
> an OLTP app! Learn about OFA (Optimal Flexible Architecture).
>
Received on Sun Jul 04 1999 - 21:09:17 CDT