RE: REDHAT & VLDB

How do you get a "low cost" VLDB? How L is VL? What's your hardware budget? What's going to hit the DB? How often? How many? DW/OLTP/Hybrid? What's your available planned downtime?

Without knowing these, I've said before on this list that I'd take a strong look at the new Sun systems if you're looking for a comparison to Linux for running Oracle. Supported Solaris for Oracle is free -- Supported Linux for Oracle isn't. And the new Sun hardware starts at $3000 US for a 1Ghz SparcIIIi Cu CPU, .5GB RAM, 36GB disk, and FOUR (4!) Gig Ethernet cards. Head over to:

http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jhtml?catid=100054

Of course, this may not work for you as the V210 has a max of only two processors and you'll almost certainly need a SAN for storage. You and yours will have to decide that.

Have fun!
Rich

Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
rich.jesse_at_qtiworld.com           Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Post, Ethan [mailto:Ethan.Post_at_ps.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 2:12 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: REDHAT & VLDB
>
>
> Any issues with RedHat and very large databases? I seem to
> recall Amazon
> and Oracle are both using RedHat. Are they using RAC? I
> would like to
> avoid RAC. This is of course being pitched as a low cost
> alternative. I
> also recall some comments about wether or not there is a real
> savings with
> Linux. I tend to think the diff in price of OS is usually
> not that big when
> you are looking at DB license, storage etc...if you want to
> still build a
> reliable system.
>
> - Thanks
> - Ethan

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