Karl Nordquist wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are currently a shop running Netware 4.11 and Oracle v7.3.4.0.1 and are
> doomed on two points. Point 1 being that Oracle no longer supports v7.x and
> as of December 31, 2001, will no longer support Novell Netware as an OS. We
> cannot upgrade our current hardware to Netware 5.x, and Oracle v8.1.x is not
> certified for Netware.
>
> So, since about February of this year we have been testing. First testing
> our current hardware with other supported OSes. First was NT, then Win2k,
> tried and failed with Linux and Solaris for Intel (same problem as Netware,
> no drivers for our EISA disk controllers).
>
> Then we got a test box from Sun (a 420R w/Quad Sparc II 450 Mhz/4mb cache
> each cpu with 2gb memory, and a D1000 running Solaris for Sun) and ran the
> same test. It performed very well on all statements.
>
> Then we got a test box from HP (intel based LT 6000R, Tri Xeon PIII
> 900Mhz/2mb cache each cpu with 2.25gb memory, and 2 disk arrays for 5 mount
> points running Win 2k) and it tested as well if not slightly better on most
> statements (except ones with heavy ordering and grouping).
>
> Now I am on the fence, so the question I pose is this, keeping in mind that
> all above mentioned testing of OSes were of the OS straight out of the box
> with no tuning. If you had the ability to do it all over again from the
> beginning, deciding on the best hardware/os combination, where would you be
> today?
>
> Please feel free to email me at oracle_test_at_brightwood.com or post to the
> group.
>
> Thanks
>
> Karl M. Nordquist
> Application Development Supervisor
> Bright Wood Corporation
> Madras, Oregon
This is sure to start a holy war...
I guess the answer depends on how big your instance will get. INHO, any
nix OS will scale better than Win anything. You will probably have
better disk performance, and no painfull memory leaks.
--
Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA
Reidy Consulting, L.L.C.
Received on Wed Nov 28 2001 - 13:46:14 CST
