Re: Oracle on AIX/Power5 LPARs

Yes, I've got Oracle databases running in Solaris zones with no issues or problems. For all intents & purposes it behaves like a seperate machine.

John G

Glenn S wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:43:42 -0700, DA Morgan wrote:
>
> > Makes sense to go to IBM P5 chips. But why pay two to three times as much
> > for them (from IBM) when you can get the same chips from Apple for a
> > fraction of the price?
>
> Chips are one thing, the system architecture is another and the Apple
> servers are not comparable to the IBM P-series in the stuff that matters
> for a database server. Also, as has been said in another message, the
> P550 uses the P5 (P5+ in fact) which is the next generation CPU.
>
> 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?
>
> --Glenn
Received on Mon Oct 24 2005 - 17:38:36 CDT