Oracle FAQ Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid
HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US
 

Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: terabyte+ database requirements

Re: terabyte+ database requirements

From: <thentzel_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2000/03/30
Message-ID: <8c0466$ac8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1

we just received the sales pitch from integrated systems technologies for a xiotech magnitude solution and i am not as familiar with this line of products as i am with sun or emc.

in general, what has been your opinion of the xiotech product, and do you have a specific vendor that you recommend talking to?

we were quoted about 100K for a non-switched magnitude with 500GB of storage to start -- is this in-line with what you seen in the past?

tim

In article <8br5n2$pe1$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, jweisen_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> Tim,
>
> A couple opinions from my experience:
>
> (1) Stay away from NT (A rule I live by). A close friend of mine works
> for a company with several multi-terabyte Oracle databases, some of
 them
> under NT. They seem to have alot more problems with the NT servers
 than
> the Unix servers. Several of their databases never stop reindexing. I
> will prob get flamed for saying that, but I don't feel NT is up to
 tasks
> that large (we don't even let it serve files here).
> (2) *Lots* of RAM...I mean as much RAM as the system can hold. I would
> consider 2-4 gigs of RAM at minimum.
> (3) Lots of Fast Disks. Go with the magic Oracle configuration, use
 RAID
> 0 or 10 only (avoid RAID 5). We use a Xiotech Magnitude Storage Area
> Network Solution here. We've seen people with Mirrored Magnitudes,
 RAID
> 0 inside the box.
>
> There are other things to consider. What kind of load do you expect
 the
> system to get? 10 users? 100 users? 100,000 hits an hour? My "when all
> else fails rule of thumb is that one person can support
> 100,000$-200,000$ in hardware/software. It's not a real solid rule,
 but
> a good piece of equip (Sun E10k) with $100,000 in Oracle licenses
 should
> have at least two admins - a Unix guy and an Oracle guy. You also need
> to consider the surrounding infastructure with a system like this. If
> you get a welfare Storage Area Network Solution (under $100k) chances
> are it's "network attached", and you need to figure in an extra
 network
> engineer (watch your collisions go through the roof). You can skimp on
> manpower, but I promise you'll regret it.
>
> My suggestion is to go to someone like Sun and have them quote you a
> solution, and go from there. Try Compaq too (the DEC/Alpha stuff, not
> their PC line). See what IBM has to offer as well.
>
> Plan on a minimum of three people to devote to this though, and get
 that
> checkbook ready.
>
> Hope it helps,
> John
>
> In article <8bg0uh$r9h$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> thentzel_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> > the company i work for is considering a product offering (not a data
> > warehouse) that will generate four terabytes of data in two years
 under
> > the most optimistic usage prediction. i have been tasked with
> > estimating the number of people, nodes, etc. that will be necessary
 to
> > support this application.
> >
> > at this point, i expect to build the system on top of an oracle
> > database; but the software version and hardware have not been
 addressed
> > yet.
> >
> > basically, it would be really valuable for me to hear about
> > experiences/tribulations/costs people have encountered building and
> > managing a similar sized system.
> >
> > tia,
> > tim
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> >
> --
> **************************************************
> "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Ad
> "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>

Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy. Received on Thu Mar 30 2000 - 00:00:00 CST

Original text of this message

HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US