Thanks for your input everyone. Here are some answers to your questions.
The driving forces here are pushing SOA. (I'm still trying to define what this means vs. our current processing architecture) I have seen some articles recently that point to Oracle on LINUX as being a good option for SOA. I am trying to find out what determines this. We currently run on a 2 CPU z-800 2066-0a2 (somewhere around 243 mips). We have a 2 LPAR multi-system sysplex for production running zos on one and zos.e on the other. Originally we had 1 Oracle data base on the zos.e side. And this worked well...for quite a while. We are now doing a lot more (9 data bases) and we are really juggling WLM to try to improve performance. We have divided the data bases over the 2 LPARS now. We have a lot of feeds coming in from other servers and users, replication, etc to keep the data base as current as possible for all the queries that come in. We also have 1 IFL (I believe 192 mips) running z/VM with a handful of LINUX (SLES 8) instances which are used mainly for file servers. One user successfully attempted to put Oracle on a LINUX instance a few years ago but their management chose another path before it was implemented. We are in the same branch with the DBAs so we have the possibility of laying out an Oracle instance in LINUX. We would like to do some type of "proof of concept", but I've never done this before. Any and all suggestions/directions/comments are greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone, Mary -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 8:08 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Need z/VM-LINUX info Mary, It has been done quite successfully by numerous people on this list, but I am sure they want more specific information about your configuration in order to advise you further. Information like the number of databases, the number of servers, etc. License costs should be a definite "pro". Also contact a local IBMer and see if you can subscribe to one of the z/Linux councils. Lots of good presentations available there, including one on Oracle just put out there recently by David Kreuter of VM-Resources Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are in the process of evaluating distributed database consolidations ourselves. Bob Richards -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 7:30 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Need z/VM-LINUX info Hi Everyone, We are doing research to see if moving some/all of our Oracle data bases from z/OS (1.4 or 1.7) to LINUX on a z/VM IFL would be a good move. We will be moving toward SOA and I need some strong support to recommend this verses going to another platform such as UNIX or Windows. I have read some articles that sound good, but I'm hoping to get some comments, ideas, pro's or con's from anyone out there that can help me either justify the move or reject the idea. Thanks for your help! Mary Yukus :-) LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. SunTrust and Seeing beyond money are federally registered service marks of SunTrust Banks, Inc. [ST:XCL] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
