Re: Advice on Hardware requirements for an Oracle Database

Either way Windows would be my operating system of last resort. To be used only if no one had UNIX experience.

Daniel Morgan

Aram Kananov wrote:

> Oracle on linux run stable now,
> instead of buying terribly slow sun ultra, buy Intel P4 with with raid card
> From my experience my 1 CPU -P4 1500MHz runs a bit faster than sun E250 2CPU 450MHZ
> u may want to look on http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5840
>
> WBR
> Aram Kananov
>
> Daniel Morgan wrote:
> > For what you are talking I'd forget about Windows unless you have no UNIX
> > experience in-house. What you are talking about could be run on a Sun
> > Ultra 5 that you could purchase off eBay for something around $2,000. It
> > would save you a lot of money and be far more stable.
> >
> > Ultra 5 may be viewed by Sun as a client machine ... but I have supported
> > quite a few instances larger than yours with an equal number of users on
> > them without a problem.
> >
> > Daniel Morgan
> >
> >
> >
> > Pedro Robledo Puerta wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>we are looking for some advice on what sort of hardware we must use
> >>for an
> >>ORACLE 8.1.6 release 2 Enterprise database that will consist of 5 main
> >>tables with a total of 12,000,000 records of simple data (no images or
> >>sounds).
> >>
> >>Usually, around 20 concurrent users will ask for reports made with
> >>joins of 3 or more of this tables.
> >>
> >>We will be using NT as our operating system on the database server and
> >>are
> >>thinking to purchase a dual PIII 1GHz, 1 Gb of SDRAM PC133, 2 SCSI HD
> >>of 18 Gb with RAID1, and a RAID card with double channel PERC 3/DI
> >>with 128 Mb of cache.
> >>
> >>will this configuration be enough?
> >>
> >>Any advice would be much appreciated
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance,
> >
> >
Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 10:31:27 CDT