Re: help on oracle parallel server

Everyone that I have consulted with seems to concur with your statement (mostly derived from problems/incapabilities with the LVM's).

Economics is a big factor in my choice of servers. I am essentially starting a company that will be handling approx 50 000 transactions a day withen one year. Unfortunately, I don't have the cash flow to buy an SP2 or an HP 9000T or a Solaris ES10000 . But I can afford the computers that I mentioned earlier.

I have dual goals (of equal importance) - speed and fault tolerance. There are much cheaper solutions if all I am looking for is one or the other, but that is not my situation.

So I am trying to buy minimal architecture that will allow growth into the the high volume system with as few speed bumps (redo of hardware architecture plans) as possible.

The immediate purchase will be for one node of my cluster. The other nodes will be added later.

If the consensus that the machines that I have chosen will not make the grade for clustering, then I will give up on clustering for the mean time and just sitdown and buy an SMP system with a fail over (an HA system).

Hope this clarifies my intentions.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

SCott

Scott Cote
Hive Software, Inc.
710 Rockcrossing Lane
Allen Tx 75002

scottcote_at_contractor.net
(972) 672 - 6484

MotoX wrote:

> I've mainly used IBM and HP. Out of the two, I'd pick IBM (we use F50s and
> S70s) over HP. The IBM have better management tools and support - at least
> here in the UK.
>
> For a Parallel Server system I'd go SP2. For a big SMP server I'd go S70.
> I'm curious as to why you are using Parallel Server - fault tolerance? or
> performance (multi instance db)? I would have thought there were simpler,
> cheaper solutions for FT than Parallel Server, and more scalable systems
> with Parallel Server for performance like the SP2. Maybe budget reasons?
>
> MotoX
>
> Scott Cote wrote in message <35A2D814.8C7C0E4B_at_contractor.net>...
> >Please save me from marketing thugs.
> >
> >I am setting up a brand spanking new data center and am trying to make
> >an informed decision as to what platform I am going to run OPS on.
> >Platforms under consideration:
> >
> >Sun ES450
> >HP K box
> >IBM rs6000 F50
> >
> >I don't want to even consider an NT class machine (I am a UNIX bigot).
> >
> >If you have any advice regarding hardware (server/storage/network) - I
> >am all ears (eyes actually).
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >SCott
> >
> >Scott Cote
> >scottcote_at_contractor.net
> >(972) 672 - 6484
> >
Received on Wed Jul 08 1998 - 10:34:44 CDT