Re: Advice on Hardware requirements for an Oracle Database

Thanks to all for your help, i apreciate your advice very much. Finally, we are going to buy the Windows NT machine becouse we donīt have any UNIX or Linux expert.

Thanks for all

Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3CB6FDCC.49BC4762_at_exesolutions.com>...
> Either way Windows would be my operating system of last resort. To be used only if no
> one had UNIX experience.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
>
>
> Aram Kananov wrote:
>
> > Oracle on linux run stable now,
> > instead of buying terribly slow sun ultra, buy Intel P4 with with raid card
> > From my experience my 1 CPU -P4 1500MHz runs a bit faster than sun E250 2CPU 450MHZ
> > u may want to look on http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5840
> >
> > WBR
> > Aram Kananov
> >
> > Daniel Morgan wrote:
> > > For what you are talking I'd forget about Windows unless you have no UNIX
> > > experience in-house. What you are talking about could be run on a Sun
> > > Ultra 5 that you could purchase off eBay for something around $2,000. It
> > > would save you a lot of money and be far more stable.
> > >
> > > Ultra 5 may be viewed by Sun as a client machine ... but I have supported
> > > quite a few instances larger than yours with an equal number of users on
> > > them without a problem.
> > >
> > > Daniel Morgan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Pedro Robledo Puerta wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Hi,
> > >>
> > >>we are looking for some advice on what sort of hardware we must use
> > >>for an
> > >>ORACLE 8.1.6 release 2 Enterprise database that will consist of 5 main
> > >>tables with a total of 12,000,000 records of simple data (no images or
> > >>sounds).
> > >>
> > >>Usually, around 20 concurrent users will ask for reports made with
> > >>joins of 3 or more of this tables.
> > >>
> > >>We will be using NT as our operating system on the database server and
> > >>are
> > >>thinking to purchase a dual PIII 1GHz, 1 Gb of SDRAM PC133, 2 SCSI HD
> > >>of 18 Gb with RAID1, and a RAID card with double channel PERC 3/DI
> > >>with 128 Mb of cache.
> > >>
> > >>will this configuration be enough?
> > >>
> > >>Any advice would be much appreciated
> > >>
> > >>Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > >
Received on Mon Apr 15 2002 - 09:38:52 CDT