Re: Oracle 10G on IBM, is this a good idea ?

From: Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:09:35 +0100
Message-ID: <43c5740f$0$32203$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

<andkovacs_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Until now we were running on HP linux DL580 without issue.
> There are some pressure to switch to IBM.
>
> Is this a good idea to install 10G on an IBM ?
>

Hi,
I'm working for +3 years now with Oracle 8i, 9i and 10g (10.1.0.4) on IBM AIX (4.3.3 and 5.2), and my experience is that this is a VERY stable operating system. Of course you have to configure/tune things like async i/o, VMM, large pages, ... but there is plenty of documentation available. One (big) disadvantage of AIX vs Linux, Solaris or Windows : you can only install it on (expensive) IBM hardware. So a test-server in VMWare on a Windows PC with Intel hardware is out of the question (and there are no emulators available).

HTH
Matthias Received on Wed Jan 11 2006 - 15:09:35 CST