Re: Fastest platform opinions wanted
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 00:21:13 GMT
Message-ID: <CrB7nE.7oI_at_world.std.com>
S. Lott writes:
>We have Sybase running on a VAX under VMS.... If we switched to a
>similar-sized CPU running Unix...would this be a win?
The real problem in this scenario is likely to be the limits of your disk I/O. It's generally not necessary to spend all your budget putting in a new CPU when your existing VAX is a fine machine. You just need to update it with some modern storage with high I/O. The new RAID I/O acceleration techniques do wonders for a VAX. We have installation VAX application performance is speeded up by more than ten times. I am one of the RAID instructors here, and have accumulated quite a lot of information on this topic, which I will be happy to share with systems administrators in a similar bind. BTW, the same is, of course, true for Oracle installations.
John
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