Re: Need Advice On Deploying Oracle using Intel.

Comments interspersed below:

Navarro wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been tasked with deploying an Oracle database (70 Gigabytes) using
> Intel architecture.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. What type of Hardware is best used for Oracle and Intel (Dell, Compaq,
> IBM etc...)?

Irrelevant. The chips are Intel, the hard disks are Seagate, get the best support contract for your dollars.

>
> 2. What type of O.S. (Windows 2000 Server or Linux)?

What expertise do you have in your shop? If you know nothing about UNIX Linux might be a disaster. If you do I'd go with it.

>
> This will be a production database and will be built from the ground up. I
> welcome
> any comments, tips, advice since most of my experience has been using
> Solaris and
> HP.
>
> TIA,
> Daniel N.

My advice would be to use Solaris 2.8 or HP/UX 11 64 bit.

Make sure your disks are configured so that you have raw devices, stripe everything, and go to http://otn.oracle.com and do a search on "RAID". You may not want to use RAID 5.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Oct 08 2002 - 18:07:58 CDT