Re: Any Recommendations On Oracle Server Spec, Itanium , Sun or IBM

Ah Daniel,

   you've vastly undervalued your mother's recipes... ;-)

Cindy

Daniel Morgan wrote:

> Niko wrote:
>
> > If I start the other way, I know what I would recommend however I am
> > not in the business of reinventing the wheel, going through same
> > process that everyone else does time and time again and am only asking
> > for an opinion from people who may or may not have used this type of
> > hardware. My normal hardware would be something like IBM S85's or 5K
> > dev servers. Speccing 50K boxes is something I don't tend to do and
> > would like to leverage some of the expertise on this group.
> >
> > TIA
> > "Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message news:<3d1f46ca_1_at_mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>...
> > > "Niko" <nick_wakefield_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > news:9da94cd1.0206261716.6042678e_at_posting.google.com...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I need to spec an Oracle server and basically have between a 1000 and
> > > > 1500 dollars a month budget for the hardware, assuming I recommend a
> > > > lease.(I think that equate to around 40K to 60K of hardware)
> > > >
> > > > The intended use is for a 100GB data warehouse, with probably only a
> > > > couple of queries running at a time.
> > > >
> > > > My options are
> > > >
> > > > 4 way Itanium, 4-8GB of RAM Linux 64 Bit, IBM or DELL I guess
> > > > 4 way XEON MP, 4-8GB of RAM Linux, again IBM or DELL
> > > > Sunfire of some kind running Solaris
> > > > IBM of somekind running something.
> > > >
> > > > Any recommendations on what I should be looking at, I basicaly want
> > > > the fastest box for my money, and I already have the backup stuff
> > > > covered. My concern with the non unix boxes is the IO performance
> > > > compared to a normal unix platform.
> > > >
> > > > TIA
> > >
> > > Sorry, but this seems to me to be entirely the wrong approach.
> > > In this case you need to start from the bottom up, not the top down.
> > > Then, if you can't meet the budget, start discussing the trade-offs and
> > > compromises.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Paul
>
> The advice you have received it not about reinventing the wheel. Every case is different. So it is impossible to
> give you an answer.
>
> In short ... you have no choice but to either do the work or make a wild guess.
>
> Personally, if I had a choice, I wouldn't use a Windows box for anything more serious than my mother's recipe
> collection.
>
> Daniel Morgan
Received on Mon Jul 01 2002 - 16:38:39 CDT