Re: Anyone using Oracle in a hyperconverged infrastructure?

I have worked with it a few times. Remember you must license the entire physical hardware, so it is a waste of money if you run anything besides Oracle on it.

On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 4:48 AM Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Another thing to consider is the support issues. Whenever you're running
> on a platform that's not officially certified, and there is a bug or other
> severe issue, Oracle may ask you to reproduce the problem on a certified
> platform. Of course, this is only really relevant if you're running mission
> critical stuff.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 5:18 PM Neil Chandler <neil_chandler_at_hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Rich,
>>
>> I used Oracle (12.1) on Nutanix at a former client a couple of years ago,
>> and it behaves itself. We didn't see any infra-related anomalies but we
>> only had a couple of lightly loaded DB's on there. You have to consider
>> that the infrastructure is all shared, so when we were implementing it and
>> I was doing some extreme I/O testing I was able to slow down everything
>> quite severely, with response times for all of the VM's suffering. For
>> day-to-day workloads I don't see an issue but I'd be wary of putting a DB
>> on there which has significant resource requirements.
>>
>> I cannot comment about the licensing for it, but it's another area to be
>> cautious as it doesn't hard partition.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Neil Chandler
>>
>>
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>> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> on
>> behalf of Rich J <rjoralist3_at_society.servebeer.com>
>> *Sent:* 13 December 2018 21:18
>> *To:* Oracle L
>> *Subject:* Anyone using Oracle in a hyperconverged infrastructure?
>>
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Looking towards a hardware refresh, and one direction includes
>> transitioning to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), like offerings from
>> HPE SimpliVity and Nutanix. This would initially be for Oracle 12.1, or
>> hopefully 12.2.
>>
>> Anyone currently running Oracle on HCI? Other than validating license
>> compliance, any concerns over things like performance or support?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
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