Re: Oracle Application Server - hardware config concepts

Tim Smith wrote:

> Hi,
> We are looking at the following config for a small intranet
>
> Oracle Application Server
> Oracle 9i database
> 2 Compaq Intel servers running Red Hat Linux
> Raid 5 storage (5 x 18GB)
>
> There will be a number of intranet apps which will generate a light
> load on the servers - though will require the ability to scale as more
> and more apps get loaded.
>
> The database will provide permanet storage however I envision that
> the Java Servlets will provide most of the caching. Take for instance
> a phonebook - it is quicker to search a database structure than to
> execute the equivalent SQL.
>
> So my big question is how to split up the components. By default I
> would expect OAS + HTTP server on one server, Database on second
> server. But I suspect that the database server would hardly be used.
> Is there any other component of OAS that I can move over to the
> database server to spread the load? The apps will be exclusively Java
> Servlets - no CGI allowed so I assume keeping the HTTP server where
> the servlets are simplifies things.
>
> thanks
>
> Tim

Not enough hard disks if performance is important: I'd at least double the number not for capacity but to spread I/O.

And go RAID 0+1 if you can.

Daniel Morgan Received on Sun Jan 12 2003 - 17:04:27 CST