As I heard, Larry Ellison is betting his business on Intel/Linux - call your
Oracle rep and ask if he/she can confirm this. Intel-based hardware costs
substantially lower than comparable Sun or HP hardware while packing
the same punch in terms of performance. Linux is quite stable already to
be used as supporting OS for your Oracle database, it clusters well, too,
and Ellison said they gonna fully support Linux and are going to migrate
to Linux clusters themselves by this summer...
2) is not an option as Oracle discontinued support for x86 Solaris.
4) is more expensive than 2), but if you trust Microsoft more than RedHat
and are willing to pay extra $$$ for server OS license and a bit more
server memory - that's your choice then.
Don't try to use AMD's in your multiprocessor servers - AMD's yet to
come up with good SMP support in their Athlons, though on desktops
they rule... If you just need 2-CPU system though, you can safely choose
Athlon MP - more bang for the buck and they work exceptionally well in
dual-cpu systems. Don't go for Pentium 4 systems either - 4's are not
server processors despite the fact that they look faster. Get PIII's (or
Xeons if you have enough funds to afford them) if you're going to stick
with Intel.
Just my 2 cents.
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"Robert Schultz" <bert_at_ncinter.net> wrote in message
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> A product we are using requires a Oracle database.
> We are currently running Oracle 8 on a Sun 220R box.
>
> We need to upgrade the hardware substantially in terms of CPU and hard
> drive space for an upgrade.
>
> Due to financial limitations it does not appear as if we can continue
> with Sun Sparc hardware.
>
> Thus we are looking to go with Intel hardware (Dell Servers).
>
>
> I was wondering what sort of data or information any of you can share
> on performance issues.
>
>
> Four Options:
> 1. Oracle on Solaris on Sparc Sun Servers
> 2. Oracle on Solaris on Intel Dell Servers
> 3. Oracle on Linux on Intel Dell Servers
> 4. Oracle on Windows 2000 on Intel Dell Servers
>
> As mentioned before we don't have the funds to go with option 1.
> That leaves us with the remaining three options.
>
> In terms of performance, we don't have a need to transfer a large
> amount of data.
> It will be a lot more small little hits to the database.
>
> Thus big data transfers won't be as common.
> So We're looking for more responsivness than large bandwidth
> transfers.
>
>
> So could someone enlighten me on what sort of performance we can
> expect from these systems on those platforms? (options 2,3,4)
>
> ALL advice is requested please.
Received on Mon Apr 15 2002 - 13:27:36 CDT
