Rodrick Brown wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> news:1130082226.891780_at_yasure...
>
>>Glenn S wrote:
>>
>>>We're looking at migrating our Oracle environment to new servers
>>>and I'm intrigued by the prospect of using IBM Power5 hardware (P550)
>>>running AIX with our Oracle application server and database server
>>>installations running in AIX logical partitions (LPARs) on the same
>>>server. We'd have four or five LPARs with two database installations and
>>>two application server installations. If you are doing this, can you
>>>clone an LPAR to create a second copy of an Oracle database for
>>>testing purposes?
>>>
>>>Any information greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>>--Glenn
>>
>>Makes sense to go to IBM P5 chips. But why pay two to three times
>>as much for them (from IBM) when you can get the same chips from
>>Apple for a fraction of the price?
>>--
>>Daniel A. Morgan
>>http://www.psoug.org
>>damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
>>(replace x with u to respond)
>
>
> They are not the same chips, ie AIX wont run on apple's ppc even though the
> architecture is similar, because of firmware/openboot differences no AIX
> will be running there any time soon, also Apple's chips are not engineered
> like the high end Pseris Power5 architecture, you are make huge assumtions
> here yes IBM's hardware is very expensive but its not an "apple to apple" :)
> comparision, RAS and enterprise features found on IBM Pseris hardware.
Is it the chips your want or the operating system? I was only addressing
the chip set.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Sun Oct 23 2005 - 12:17:10 CDT
