Re: Solaris/Oracle Sizing Question

In article <24819cc3.0305081401.4c9ae4ce_at_posting.google.com>, yamahasw40 _at_latinmail.com says...
> I think this is a dumb question, but its for Management so bear with
> me.
> My client has a client who has a 16 USparc-III domain on a Sun 12K
> with 20GB of RAM. They are running "Oracle" but I can't get any more
> information on that. (I am assuming that its a DB, probably 8i). The
> project manager wants a magic document that will say "for X CPUs you
> need Y GB of RAM". I reckon this doesn't exist. (Even though all the
> standard Sun Configs are 2GB/CPU, they don't seem to actually mention
> this as a minimum).
> I have spent the last couple of hours trolling sun.com and oracle.com
> looking for an "Oracle on Sun" sizing calculator. Does such a beast
> exist and if so, can you please throw me a link? Note that this has
> to come from either Sun or Oracle. Management won't believe anything
> that isn't straight from the mouth a vendor (God help me).

Get in touch with your Sun rep and tell them you need to get in touch with the SOATC (Sun/Oracle Application Technology Center). It may have been renamed recently, but they should know what you're talking about. They'll send you a couple of questionnaires that you'll need to get info from your client to fill out then they'll do a sizing for you.

Other than that, I've always maintained that "Oracle" is from the Greek for "buy more memory". As much as you can possibly fit in the box is sometimes enough.

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