Re: oracle vldb on windows nt

Connor McDonald wrote:
>
> attwoody wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I would be interested in hearing about experiences running Oracle
> > VLDB's (500GB - 1TB) on Windows NT - what kind of servers, reliability,
> > ease of scalability, etc, etc. The application would be PeopleSoft 7.5,
> > Financials and HR/Payroll.
> >
> > I, personally, would feel much safer running something like this on
> > either a HP N-Class, Sun UltraEnterprise 5500 or IBM RS/6000 S80 (when
> > it comes out in the fall), but "dead presidents" (ie: cost of unix
> > servers vs intel) are talking very loud and clear to the management of
> > my company.
> >
> > Fortunately, the "dead presidents" aren't drowning out other
> > considerations such as reliablilty and scalability; I'm being asked
> > about NT more from the perspective of its being another option.
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
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> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
> I think NT has a ceiling of 2G RAM addressable for each process which
> could cause problems for a database of that size...

The NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition has 3G RAM limit, and W2000 Advanced Server has 64G limit and even the beta 3 RC 1 is more stable then NT 4.0 SP5. In his case, though NT is not a very good choice.

Stilian Received on Thu Jul 22 1999 - 14:04:14 CDT