Oracle Application Server - hardware config concepts

From: Tim Smith <timasmith_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 12 Jan 2003 08:56:17 -0800
Message-ID: <a7234bb1.0301120856.61ede806@posting.google.com>

Hi,

We are looking at the following config for a small intranet

   Oracle Application Server
   Oracle 9i database
   2 Compaq Intel servers running Red Hat Linux    Raid 5 storage (5 x 18GB)

There will be a number of intranet apps which will generate a light load on the servers - though will require the ability to scale as more and more apps get loaded.

The database will provide permanet storage however I envision that the Java Servlets will provide most of the caching. Take for instance a phonebook - it is quicker to search a database structure than to execute the equivalent SQL.

So my big question is how to split up the components. By default I would expect OAS + HTTP server on one server, Database on second server. But I suspect that the database server would hardly be used. Is there any other component of OAS that I can move over to the database server to spread the load? The apps will be exclusively Java Servlets - no CGI allowed so I assume keeping the HTTP server where the servlets are simplifies things.

thanks

Tim Received on Sun Jan 12 2003 - 10:56:17 CST