Re: Oracle on AIX/Power5 LPARs

"Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in message news:pMU6f.3585$D13.3509_at_newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...
>> I'm looking at Sun UltraSparc and IBM Power5 servers for a Oracle
>> application installation with about 150 concurrent users. I had
>> considered the 4-way Opterons that HP has out, but the virtualization
>> technology is not there yet on the Opterons (OK, VMWare, but no hardware
>> support). IBM seems to be way out in front in this respect, but I'm not
>> 100% convinced that it is viable as a single server installation even
>> though the sales people assure me it will work.
>>
>> On the matter of Sun, anyone run Oracle database or application server
>> under the Solaris 10 containers?
>>
>
> Are you having problems running VMware? I used it for web servers and it
> is pretty sleek. There is a slight performance penalty though. IMO,
> Opteron is definitely a better value. You can run Solaris, Windows or
> Linux on it.
>
> On SPARC systems, you can use containers and Dynamic System Domains. I
> have not used them myself but they are designed for server consolidation
> and should work well.
>

Speaking of VMWare, one the really big disadvantages of AIX (in my opinion) is the fact that it can only run on specific server hardware, so there is no possibility to install some virtual servers on a PC for testing purposes.

Matthias Received on Mon Oct 24 2005 - 13:48:15 CDT