Re: Platform choice

Disclaimer: I'm not an Oracle expert nor even a DBA.

Having said that - here's my $0.02. Its been posted here before that Oracle on NT is probably not such a great choice - its the only OS for which Oracle deemed it necessary to release a 'fail-safe' application (if I understand previous posts correctly). So, nix the NT thing. If your server is ONLY going to serve as an Oracle Server, you might consider dropping the OS altogether - Oracle can serve as its own OS, if I understand correctly. This might restrict you as far as your hardware is concerned, which in your case may make your decision easier.

In the setup I'm running - one thing is blatantly apparent - I/O speed is _imperative_!! I have a dual PIII/450 machine w/ 256MB RAM totally bottlenecked at its disks. Running complex SQL scripts barely touches the CPU usage but absolutely KILLS the disks (I almost start crying when I hear how hard they're being pounded - j/k).

So - when you consider RAID, consider it not only as a fail over, data integrity, blah, blah, blah solution - but also as a 'how fast can I pound bits to the disks' solution. Don't skimp on the I/O bandwidth - you'll be hurting.

Regards,
Brice

Jamie Kincaid wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for advice on platform choice for an oracle database.
> What specifications in particular should I be looking at when
> purchasing a server to run Oracle 8i and Oracle application server.
>
> Compaq claim their DS20 model is 'ideal' for running Oracle.
> But I am unsure of what makes it so 'ideal'. What do you need to best
> serve Oracle (apart from lots of diskspace if you need it).
> Is Oracle more suited to a sun or a DEC or an NT or is it down to the
> OS?
>
> Many thanks for any advice received.
>
> Jamie
>
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Received on Fri Feb 25 2000 - 09:49:51 CST