Re: ORACLE AIX on IBM RS6000-SP

From: Gustav Yeung <gustav_yeung_at_vandagroup.com>
Date: 1997/11/08
Message-ID: <3464C9DB.A583593B_at_vandagroup.com>#1/1

Hi Janin,

I am not a professional Oracle technologist. I hope I can help on the SP side.

JANIN wrote:

> ORACLE doesn't want to support us, if we install ORACLE 7 version AIX.
>
> ORACLE says that we have to install the version ORACLE for IBM SP.
>

Oracle 7.3.2.1 onwards have parallel version for SP. See:http://www.oracle.com/platforms/ibm/sp/html/spmatrix.html

> It's a problem for us because we have also many classical configurations
> RISC/6000, and we are not sure that our applications are full compatible
> with ORACLE for IBM SP.
>

Oracle parallel edition would not be very different unless you have done a very comprehensive tuning on the system side. (Thus your application may not improve significantly.) Unlike ture distributed RDBMS like DB/2 and Informix, what Parallel Server relies on is VSD and related disk operations. With VSD database servers see a large pool of disks which servers on the other nodes can share. If the data that all nodes want are mostly on one or two nodes you still have disk contention problems, unless you stripe volumes across nodes.

Oracle 8 will be a different story, but I am not familiar with O8.

Regards,

Gustav

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Gustav Yeung
Senior System Engineer
Certified AIX Support Professional
Certified RS/6000 SP Specialist

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Received on Sat Nov 08 1997 - 00:00:00 CET