Re: Any Recommendations On Oracle Server Spec, Itanium , Sun or IBM

Niko wrote:

> Considering that, I identified the hardware down to a short list, see
> below, based on the following requirements.
>
> 100GB/per year capacity, accounting for failure.
> Internal disk enclosure with capacity to go external, though if data
> growth goes beyond 100GB then the db will be re-evaluated and moved,
> though this is not expected.
>
> 8GB of ram based on 90% of expected queries according to user
> requirements, with capacity to add another 8GB.
>
> Support for 1Gbit network.
>
> Support for Oracle 8i
>
> CPU's based on 4 concurrent OLAP queries, not normally utilising
> parallel execution and max 16 etl queries during nightly loads.
>
> Considering a 1500 dollar monthly lease payment, we ended up here and
> was looking for an opinion of anyone who had touched all of these
> recently.
>
> 4 way Itanium, 4-8GB of RAM Linux 64 Bit, IBM or DELL
> 4 way XEON MP, 4-8GB of RAM Linux, again IBM or DELL
> Sunfire running Solaris - this is new teritory for me
> IBM running AIX, fine with S85's and up, though not sure about the
> lower end boxes.
>
> "Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message news:<3d20d003$2_3_at_mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>...
> > "Niko" <nick_wakefield_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:9da94cd1.0207011138.213a414e_at_posting.google.com...
> > > If I start the other way, I know what I would recommend however I am
> > > not in the business of reinventing the wheel, going through same
> > > process that everyone else does time and time again and am only asking
> > > for an opinion from people who may or may not have used this type of
> > > hardware. My normal hardware would be something like IBM S85's or 5K
> > > dev servers. Speccing 50K boxes is something I don't tend to do and
> > > would like to leverage some of the expertise on this group.
> > >
> > > TIA
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't mean to sound disparaging. What I meant was that IMHO the
> > best way to go about this exercise is to do the arithmetic. Work out the
> > volume of data, likely growth, number of users, likely growth in users and
> > so forth.
> > I don't think this is reinventing the wheel, because every wheel differs.
> > This should give you an idea how much disk space, memory and CPU you need,
> > and should give you some basis upon which you can specify the hardware.
> > At that stage, if there's a problem vs. the budget, start to review and
> > discuss the options.
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Paul

We did consider it. We also considered the fact that in our opinions you have provided insuffient information from which to formulate a good decision. It appears that you are trying to shift responsibility to someone here by having us either do your work for you or so that you can have someone to point to and blame if things don't work out perfectly.

Personally I think you have put together a few bad options are don't know how to calculate which is the least bad.

Daniel Morgan Received on Tue Jul 02 2002 - 10:48:58 CDT