Re: Oracle Apps

A little known item with many customers is that many hardware vendors have special resources (their own facilities or together with Oracle) to size applications.

The simplest thing you could do is call your Sun rep & ask for sizing information.

I'd strongly recommend two separate machines, 1 for database & 1 for middle tier, so you can tune each machine appropriately. Size of machine, especially memory, is critical for performance & expansion. Personal preference, Sun 250 or 450 as a minimum.

IMHO & not to start a debate over this, but I find workstations and servers are designed for separate duty cycles. A workstation will operate as a server for a while, but generally is not intended for the continuous load put on by a group of people, in part because the disk subsystem of a workstation is designed more for a lot of user 'think time'. For 30 people, definitely go up to at least a workgroup server.

Mark Harrington wrote:

> My company is planning on testing Oracle Human Resources and Oracle
> Financials. We will have no more than 30 users on at anytime
> including developers.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations of the real life hardware
> requirements? We plan to buy Sun machines (Sparc Solaris).
>
> Would one machine be enough? Do we really need a "server."
>
> Right now we are looking at purchasing 2 Sun Ultra 10 WorkStations.
> https://www.sun.com/desktop/products/ultra10/specs.html
> 1x440 MHz UltraSPARC-Iii
> 512 MB RAM
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> mark
Received on Fri Nov 16 2001 - 00:58:02 CST