Re: hp vs sun for oracle

"Norman Dunbar" <Norman_at_RE-MO-VE.BountifulSolutions.co.uk> wrote in message news:pan.2003.11.02.17.27.07.639922_at_RE-MO-VE.BountifulSolutions.co.uk...
> On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 06:04:49 -0500, Rubin Farr wrote:
>
> > Hello all. My company has decided to go with the comprehensive suite of
> > oracle apps and we now need to choose a hardware platform. We are
> > considering all options. From what I have researched thus far, however,
we
> > are laning toward hp-ux. Sun is also another strong contender.
> >
> > I was wondering what everyone else is running on production as far as a
unix
> > flavor (wintel is out for us.)
> >
> <SNIP>
>
> Hi Rubin,
>
> at present I'm not working :o(
> However, when I was, I was in a software house in three parts
> geographically. Two sites had Sun and we had HP. HP is by far the most
> reliable - Our main production database was running on an old K420 server
> on HPUX 10-20 and Oracle 734 - it just ran and ran and ran. Uptime was
> measured in years.
>
> I wasn't allowed to upgrade the OS or Oracle to a supported version
> because everything was fine - and nobody wanted the hassles that would be
> involved in swapping over.
>
> We had another 4 HP boxes (2 L class, 1 N class and another K420) and all
> of them just worked on HPUX 11.00 with varios flavours of Oracle from 8.0
> to 9i. No problems.
>
> I don't consider myself to have much skills in the Unix admin part of my
> job because the systems just worked. I did a couple of OS upgrades on a
> couple of the servers - no probs.
>
> Disaster Recovery is a doddle on HPUX - use the command Make_recovery_tape
> (or make_recovery) and that is it. All of the vg00 volume group goes to
> tape (or whatever) and you can reboot from it on a different server in the
> event of a disaster. We tested this at a DR provider and it was all as
> sweet as a nut.
>
> The other sites have had engineers on site for days at a time to fix the
> Sun boxes - processor boards, Memory chips, discs etc - they just die with
> monotonous regularity. We had no mail for three days because the entire
> mail system at one site (on a Sun) went down and wouldn't recover.
>
> DR is a PITA as well - or so I'm told by the Sun admins - who get more
> Unix experience on their boxes that I ever did on my HP 'babies'.
>
> HP - know it, use it, love it !
>
> And you can get Linux for it as well. :o)
>
>
> HTH
>
> Regards,
> Norman.
>
> PS. Ok, we *did* lose one K420 processor once - in 7 years !
>
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until HP can get a cd to automount - I will hate it Received on Sun Nov 02 2003 - 11:31:40 CST