Re: Alpha OpenVMS & Oracle Req?

Douglas Scott wrote:
> I've sorta of been thrown into the database administration field since
our DBA has left to seek greener pastures ($$$). My boss wants to know if the Alpha 2100 4/275 with 2 CPUs, 768 Mb of RAM, 2 KZPSC SCSI controllers and about 50 Gb of disk space that we have will support our current environment. We currently have 2 Oracle 7.1.5 databases (1-5Gb database with an SGA of 28Mb and another 4Gb with an SGA of 13 Mb) running on a VAX with OpenVMS 6.2. He's mainly interested in the first database since that's our production database while the other is our beta database. Can anyone tell me if this Alpha will support our needs (~80 users) and if not what would?
> The current production database is running on a VAX not an Alpha and my
> boss wants to retire the VAX. I'm mainly trying to find out if the
> Alpha we have will support the same databases or do I need something
> else.
>
> Douglas Scott
> Douglas.S.Scott_at_boeing.com

Doug,

I have somewhat of a similar situation, an Alpha 2100 4/275 with 1 CPU, and 1GB of RAM, but my db is a small OLTP db aroung 250MB with upwards of 100+ users (mostly true client/server without VMS sessions). It supports the load quite well. As Doug pointed out earlier though, many factors have to be considered in "sizing" a box, but I have been quite impressed with the 2100 we have. Received on Sat Sep 13 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT