Re: Oracle 7 on Sun 1000 vs Compaq Proliant

toddm73670_at_aol.com (ToddM73670) wrote:

>In Message-ID: <3kl3rt$a0o_at_blackice.winternet.com>
>John Chandler writes
 

>>Does anyone have any experience that would indicate Oracle7
>>performance and scalability, specifically on the Sun 1000 (under
>>Solaris) or Compaq Proliant (under NetWare)?
 

>We are using Oracle 7.0.x under Netware on a Compaq Proliant 4000 w/ one
>pentium processor board and 192 MB RAM. The hardware performs very well,
>especially the proprietary dual channel High Speed SCSI card. We typically
>have over 60 concurrent connections on average per day. Most of these are
>Indexed lookups for specific information, so load is not as fantastic as
>you might think. However, Netware (we have used v3.x-4.x for ORACLE) does
>not have very good protection when things go wrong. Our server was up and
>down a lot before the latest release of 7.0.x, but still Novell is a
>Ring-Zero O/S. We plan to abandon Novell ASAP and move our stuff to a
>combination of HP-UX and MS-NT.
 

>Todd Meckenstock
>First USA Merchant Services
>Dallas, TX
 

>My opinions are my own, and not necessarily those of my employer.

yes, trash Oracle and the Pentium if you want to have a real server, get on a Unix box asap. Novell setup is only going to cause you more grief ($$$) than the additional expense of the true servers of Sun or HP. Received on Thu Apr 06 1995 - 00:00:00 CEST