Re: Hardware specification for database server !!!

Thanks Mladen.

Can I conntact you directly on your mail, if I need your assistance again. I assume that your mail is mgogala_at_earthlink.net.

I will answer on your question about Infosystem on mail above ASAP.

Regards Djuro.

"Mladen Gogala" <mgogala_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message news:pan.2001.11.26.08.18.15.104.15934_at_earthlink.net...
> In article <9ttbcp$pt4$1_at_sunce.iskon.hr>, "Ðuro Dretviæ"
> <Djuro.Dretvic_at_infodom.hr> wrote:
>
> > Greetings !!!
> >
> > I need help for hardware specification of database server at my company.
> > We are
> > relatively small software development company. We have 60 employes.
> >
> > Here are our requirements:
> >
> > 1. 30 developers (all on Oracle). (Oracle CASE Designer, Oracle Forms,
> > Oracle Portal)
> > 2. Windows 2000 OPSYS
> > 3. Two databases : (8.1.7. with possibility of upgrade to 9.1.1)
> > a) Development
> > b) Production (only for internal use)
> > 4. Optimal perforamance
> > 5. Hardware should be from known manufactor. (Brand name) 6. My request
> > as DBA: I don't wan't to see my developers at office with problem that
a
> > database works slow.
> >
> > What do you suggest ?
> >
> > We intended to buy hardware form Hewlett Packard. Is there
recommendation
> > about hardware specification from Oracle on metalink .
> >
> > Thanks for you answers in advace.
> > Regards Djuro.
> >
> > ? Number of processors:
> > ? Quantity of RAM:
> > ? Number of disks:
> > ? Size of disks:
> > ? RAID (Hadrware or software):
> > ? ...
>
> Everything is nice exept requesting that the OS has to be Win2000. One
> little HP 9000N could run all that without a problem. It is a known fact
> that neither NT nor Win2000 shine when it comes to SMP. HP-UX, Solaris,
AIX
> and even Linux will beat any NT version hands down on an SMP box. Those
> SMP R6000 boxes are rather inexpensive and extremely powerfull as well as
> HP and SUN boxes. Solaris is a marvellous development environment with
> little things like truss and tcpdump built into OS. Here is my
> recommendaton:
>
> 4 CPUS
> 4 GB RAM
> 6 10GB drives (SW, log files,system TBS, temp, RBS) Any number of big disk
> drives for data and indexes. USe locally managed tablespaces wherever you
> can.
>
> As for RAID, that is primarily a financial decision, which is made based
on
> whether youcan tolerate outage and how long can the system be down. On the
> other hand coold gadgets like Symmetrix can make your life and backups
> much simpler. EMC products are rather pricey, though.
>
> My company (Oxford Health Plans, Trumbull CT, www.oxhp.com) is running
> 4-way OPS on 4 HP class N boxes and we have a separate 2-way OPS for
> development. The underlying disks are on EMC Symmetrix boxes and we are
> running 4000 concurrent users and 200 developers (using CASE,
Oracle*Forms,
> FORTE and Java). We are a Unix shop. NT and Win2000 are departmental print
> servers and file servers, not database servers.
>
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
Received on Wed Nov 28 2001 - 04:00:06 CST