"Niko" <nick_wakefield_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I need to spec an Oracle server and basically have between a 1000 and
> 1500 dollars a month budget for the hardware, assuming I recommend a
> lease.(I think that equate to around 40K to 60K of hardware)
>
> The intended use is for a 100GB data warehouse, with probably only a
> couple of queries running at a time.
>
> My options are
>
> 4 way Itanium, 4-8GB of RAM Linux 64 Bit, IBM or DELL I guess
> 4 way XEON MP, 4-8GB of RAM Linux, again IBM or DELL
> Sunfire of some kind running Solaris
> IBM of somekind running something.
>
> Any recommendations on what I should be looking at, I basicaly want
> the fastest box for my money, and I already have the backup stuff
> covered. My concern with the non unix boxes is the IO performance
> compared to a normal unix platform.
>
> TIA
Sorry, but this seems to me to be entirely the wrong approach.
In this case you need to start from the bottom up, not the top down.
Then, if you can't meet the budget, start discussing the trade-offs and
compromises.
Regards,
Paul
Received on Sat Jun 29 2002 - 15:39:40 CDT
