Re: Is it a good idea, dev/test/production on one box

Hi!

Surely it would be wise to have second server as development (or(and standbye, incase of hardware failure).
You can also make calculation how long full recovery will take in some disaster (fire, flood etc).
You can say this to your customer and if they still prefer one server, that is Okey.
Quite often money is counted presicely and no spare server is purhased nowadays...

"NewGuyOnRAC" <joebayerii(delete)@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8_hDe.5336$Zx3.3293_at_trndny05...
> It is Oracle 9202 on RedHat Linux, 4cpu Dell computer, powerEdge,
> something like that. Load on production is not heavy, development is not
> heavy neither, they bought their software from vendor, there is no in
> house programming, so it is not the load/resource/performance issue that
> concerns me, I just do not like the idea of whole company, one box,
> something going wrong with the box, everything breaks.
>
> I dont think it is the hardware, it is additional Oracle cpu/licence that
> concerns them. Can we just buy the licence for one box with support, and
> another box with licence, but no support, will that work?
>
>
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> news:1121821873.139233_at_yasure...
>> Depends on factors you haven't mentioned.
>>
>> 1. What is the hardware platform and operating system
>> 2. Storage subsystem
>> 3. What is the Oracle edition and version
>> 4. What is the load on each of the 3 instances
>> 5. What kind of development is going on
>> 6. What is the SLA for the production database.
>>
>> So, for example, if they are on 8i running on Windows and the production
>> load is coming from the internet serving up dynamic web pages, and the
>> development is low-level C++, and management expects the server to have
>> a 99.999999+% uptime it isn't going to work.
>>
>> I mean why not one database instance and 3 schemas?
>>
>> Your advice is good and they would be wise to follow it. I can't imagine
>> how they can afford Oracle licenses and not a few hundred/thousand
>> dollars for more hardware. My Grid Control machine, for example, is a
>> used IBM ThinkPad obtained from eBay for hardly any money at all.
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> http://www.psoug.org
>> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
>> (replace x with u to respond)
>
>
Received on Wed Jul 20 2005 - 05:25:33 CDT