Re: Hardware Reccomendations

Tim:

Much of what Chris wrote I would second. It would really depend on what each of these schemas/databases are doing, how many users on each one at a given time, and how much data is being 'pushed around'.

If the customer is NT proficient, you might want to consider one or more Digital/Compaq Alpha's running Win NT. I had such a machine as a test-bed - and was processing data at about 70% of a larger Unix system.....not bad price/performance at all. And more horsepower than Intel/NT alternatives.

Craig Brady
Talisman Technologies Inc
Specializing in Oracle/VLDBs/Data Warehousing/ Tuning cpbrady_at_frontiernet.net

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tim_mcconechy_at_my-deja.com wrote in message <7k2bbi$j6u$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>Hi. I am putting together some hardware reccomendations for a customer
>and would like to here what people say.
>
>This company will have 80 users - 50-60 concurrent.
>Over 15 databases - 1 per product.
>
>The organization has very little Oracle know how and no UNIX servers at
>the moment.
>For this reason I am thinking NT would be easiest.
>
>I would like to know how many servers and what you would reccomend as
>far as resources,hardware,OS..
>
>OS...
>Number of servers...
>Hardware...
>Training (number of full time DBA's)...
>Database Version...
>RAID-version
>
>My current thought is around 1 server per two databases spilt up over
>usage.
>The servers each a Dell Power-edge PC with a 5 Disk RAID array of some
>kind. 2-3 full time DBA's, oracle 8.0.5
>
>Or ?? large UNIX Servers.
>
>thanks!
>
>
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Received on Mon Jun 14 1999 - 21:01:06 CDT