Re: AIX vs Solaris

Oracle on AIX is definitely faster. Applications are much more stable on AIX than on Solaris...sorry Slowaris.

Yes, AIX might be expensive but you make it up over time. the no. of tools available for AIX is huge...the capabilties are much advanced compared to Slowaris.

Sun is cheaper, no doubt. scalability is limited. As one poster mentioned, getting Oracle patches is faster on Sun than on AIX.

we develop large, commercial applications on 4 of the most widely used UNIX flavours and we have seen that Slowaris under performs quite a few times. it is not just the application but the database too.

RAC on AIX performs better than on Sun. RAC setup even in early 2001 was quite easy compared to Sun.

web applications, java stuff seem to do well on Slowaris boxes ..small to large but commerical applications, ERP, etc. don't scale as well on Sun as they do on AIX.

so, i would choose Sun over AIX if my budgets are small and performance is not really a major criteria. the type of application also needs consideration.

cheers
anand

Bob Jones wrote:
> >>> Interesting question.
> >>> This are just my 2 euro cents..
> >>>
> >>> AIX
> >>> has a more complete O/S (asynchronous I/O is standard)
> >>
> >>Oh you have to pay for asynch IO with sun? Not.
> >
> > Are you sure? People in my firm always state you have to buy Veritas
> > Advanced Edition or Veritas Database Edition. The vxfs that comes with
> > Solaris doesn't support asychronous I/O, or everyone here is very
> > mistaken.
>
> Very mistaken indeed. AIO is built into Solaris. No Veritas needed.
>
> >>
> >>> better management tools
> >>
> >>For example ... what exactly?
> >
> > Smit: System Management InTerface. And there is smitty for non-X
> > access. As far as I know the equivalent Solaris tool is limited
>
> I would say Smit is better on AIX and SMC is better on Solaris.
>
> >>
> >>> Less parameters to tune
> >
> > No need to tune semaphore parameters and the like.
>
> That is kind of trivial to mention. There are also some parameters needed
> tuning on AIX but not on Solaris.
>
> >>
> >>At least oracle doesn't have many parameters.
> >>
> >>> More diagnostic tools.
> >>
> >>More is better? Let's see some specific examples.
> >
> > errpt, diag
>
> syslog, DTrace.
>
> >>
> >>> The hardware breaks less often.
> >>
> >>All hardware breaks eventually.
> >>
> > We had a Sun motherboard break within 3 months after delivery.
>
> Sun hardware has been very reliable for us. Solaris also runs on x86 systems
> so you have choices from many vendors other than Sun.
Received on Fri Jul 21 2006 - 00:11:05 CDT