Re: Choosing between Solaris and HP-UX 11i

KJD wrote:

>My organization is embarking on a large Oracle based system utilizing
>9iAs and Oracle 9iR2. The system is a mission critical OLTP
>application that will go live mid-year next year. Hardware platform
>is still under evaluation. I want to gather some feedback from the
>group on the choice between HP-UX 11i running on itanium or SUN
>Solaris. Which of the two can deliver better on Oracle reliability,
>scaleability, high availability, support, and ease of administration.
>
>Rgds,
>
>KJ
>
>

I have both Sun, HP and IBM equipment and at the moment prefer AIX 5L over both of the other two. It's ability to resize partitions on-the-fly is breathtaking. With HP you can do it. With Sun you have to rebuild the entire machine (at least as of vesion 8).

Unlike Sybrand my experience with fried RAM has been that HP has problems and Sun does not so it may just depend on which machines, purchased in what year, and luck (good or bad).

I'd suggest contacting both, or all three, vendors and negotiating the best possible pricing and support and then just sit back and let it go. But equally important is the availability of good SysAdmin support in-house. What resources do you have? How about in your community. Great HP hardware with an SA that doesn't know what SAM is won't get you very far.

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