Not sure what hardware you should buy. But the performance issues can be
addressed in general. There are a variety of books and white papers that
give recommendations on disk configurations for example. While IBM is now
making 50 gig SCSI disk drives for around $800 that does not help increase
the number of I/O's per second. (User buys 1 50 gig drive for his database
because he has a 25 gig database instead of 10 5 gig drives stripped
together or separate out the redo etc. Performance problem waiting to
happen).
Jim
Michael Keppler <Michael.Keppler_at_bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:80rpgh$k5n_at_TGZ3...
> Hello everybody !
>
> We want to build a cluster (of actually 2 computers) sharing one drive
> subsystem to achive security against hardware failures. We would prefer
> NT because there are some other selfmade business applications running
> on Windows, they should run on the same machines.
> What hardware would you prefer ? I mean, are there some general
> differences between compaq and hp computers for instance?
> At the moment our database is running on a P2-350, 512 MB, 14 GB RAID5
> (but this computer is really to slow to handle it for a longer time). I
> think, in the next two years we will need about 5 to 8 times more
> computing power.
> What (Oracle and NT) licences are needed for such an installation ?
>
> Ciao and Thanks, Michael.
>
> --
> Michael Keppler, MCSE, MCP+I
> IT logic GbR
> Michael.Keppler_at_gmx.de
>
>
Received on Wed Nov 17 1999 - 09:12:23 CST
