From: "Richard Armstrong" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Running parallel server on Sun hardware Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 01:58:25 -0000 Message-ID: <978400834.20882.0.nnrp-07.9e9809ca@news.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: "Richard Armstrong" NNTP-Posting-Host: juno.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: juno.demon.co.uk:158.152.9.202 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 978400834 nnrp-07:20882 NO-IDENT juno.demon.co.uk:158.152.9.202 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Lines: 23 The company I work for wants to migrate a database from Oracle/NT to an Oracle (parallel server)/Solaris platform. We have run Oracle parallel server on NT and DEC platforms before but we have never run parallel server on Sun hardware. We have had difficulty finding any information at all about running OPS on Sun hardware. Presumably, as with NT, OPS is only supported on certain Sun hardware. Can anybody confirm which Sun servers are supported? Also, some form of clustering software (like the OSD layer in NT) must be required. Can anybody confirm what this is? Is a physically shared disk array (like the shared disk subsystem in NT) required? If so, can anybody recommend suitable disk hardware? I'm sure many people reading this group will be running OPS on Solaris and I'd be grateful for any advice or suggestions. Thanks in advance, Richard