- For Win2003
Make sure Oracle can use the memory on the O/S
google /3GB /PAE for the boot.ini
- Oracle 10g Standard: make sure you got the lastest patches install
for DSY Daylight Saving
- Patches make sure your DBA (which I sure they will) has the lastest
CPU patches install too.
- From Oracle 8i to 10g..
Wow! Lots of new stuff in 10g...
On Feb 8, 12:37 am, "EscVector" <J..._at_webthere.com> wrote:
> On Feb 7, 4:41 pm, "red_val..._at_yahoo.com" <red_val..._at_yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > We're awaiting a Dell 2900 PowerEdge machine with Win2003. We plan to
> > load Oracle 10g Standard Edition and import our databases from the
> > current 'production' machine, currently running Oracle8i. The main
> > application is a networked, multi-user data modeling tool which uses
> > Oracle as its data repository; and empty databases from the DDL
> > generated from the modeling tool's physical data model segment. The
> > two main Oracle databases themselves are 8 GB and 500 MB in size.
> > It's possible that we may have to support MS SQLServer on the new
> > machine, too.
>
> > The PE2900 is configured with 8 GB memory; 2x73GB mirrored root SAS
> > drives on channel0; and 8x146 GB SAS drives in 2 RAID 10 arrays with
> > each stripe set of 4 drives on separate channel of the I/O card.
>
> > The root disks will be logical C: drive, others logical D: drive.
>
> > Is this the optimal configuration for this hardware set? Can anything
> > be done better?
>
> > Also, this is my first exposure to Oracle, though I'm a veteran DBA
> > with other major DBMSes. Any words for the wise in configuring the
> > new instance?
>
> Looks like a good start, but there are lots of other pitfalls. If the
> repository and tool and database are on the machine, make sure you use
> IPC to connect. This way you aren't sending everything through
> loopback and breaking it into packets for no reason. Pretty good
> setup for a simple repository.... :)
>
> I'd make sure you test and update or not update all drivers. I'm
> testing cpu based situations that have drastic time differences with
> the only difference begin the installed HAL and drivers. This goes
> for Linux too.....
Received on Thu Feb 08 2007 - 06:12:47 CST
