Re: Appliances

From: ~Jeff~ <jifjif_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:44:19 +1200
Message-ID: <CANz7uMabPJrz6wacojKaT2GXOJ+Q4Gh8dPbDhdzrMsgDG+Yg1A_at_mail.gmail.com>



Hi Howard
Not sure what "safe" means, but...

we evaluated ODA last year, but in our case (reluctantly) turned it down because:
- only 11.2 was available. We have several critical legacy systems which use 9.2, 10.2 so that was a showstopper. - disk was not expandable at that point. I understand that's been addressed via NFS now.

It was nice that you could run non-RAC EE and license some fraction of the available cores. Our old db server has license for 4 "processors" (ie 8 cores) and it would be difficult to get budget for more. And I would take the performance profile of a recent Intel Xeon over a T4 any day :)

For a use case where you don't mind giving Oracle access to the server and have a set of databases that can all run on 11.2 and be patched simultaneously, it would make sense.

At least, this was how we understood it after liaising with the pre-sales guys.

cheers-
jeff

On 15 May 2013 02:19, Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> We have spoken to Oracle sales after a long holiday and they are steering
> us hard toward Oracle Appliances to reduce the multiple core's cost. Are we
> safe with that route?
> Howard A. Latham
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