Re: Oracle on AIX/Power5 LPARs

> I'm looking at Sun UltraSparc and IBM Power5 servers for a Oracle
> application installation with about 150 concurrent users. I had
> considered the 4-way Opterons that HP has out, but the virtualization
> technology is not there yet on the Opterons (OK, VMWare, but no hardware
> support). IBM seems to be way out in front in this respect, but I'm not
> 100% convinced that it is viable as a single server installation even
> though the sales people assure me it will work.
>
> On the matter of Sun, anyone run Oracle database or application server
> under the Solaris 10 containers?
>

Are you having problems running VMware? I used it for web servers and it is pretty sleek. There is a slight performance penalty though. IMO, Opteron is definitely a better value. You can run Solaris, Windows or Linux on it.

On SPARC systems, you can use containers and Dynamic System Domains. I have not used them myself but they are designed for server consolidation and should work well. Received on Sun Oct 23 2005 - 18:11:17 CDT