Re: Oracle on DEC ALPHA

In article <3grai4$eal$1_at_mhadf.production.compuserve.com>, Rich Gaston <75457.515_at_CompuServe.COM> wrote:

> Lisa, thanks for the followup. I just received email from
> Oracle, and it sounds like we're going to set up a conference
> call with a couple of people in Oracle's DEC products group.
>
> We're using OpenVMS AXP 6.1 on a 7000-620 dual-processor Alpha
> VAX (512Mb RAM).
>
> I'm pretty interested in the 2100 servers - heard a lot of good
> reviews, and they're definitely economical. One question I have
> at this point is:
> Are the larger servers like ours tuned as general-purpose
> machines (Pathworks, VAX apps, etc.) ?? Is the 2100 tuned as a
> database server ? The ads certainly seem to confirm this. Are
> there steps we can take to optimize our 7000 for Oracle??
>
> Rich

We use a DEC Alpha 2100 mp600, thats the rack mounted system, with 20gb of disk. The disks are striped in hardware, mirrored with LSM and made available with ASM. I had an Oracle consultant in to load Oracle kernel on it. He came back and said he thought it had failed because it was just too fast! This is a very nice box indeed.

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Adrian Challinor
CEO, Osiris Consultants Ltd