Lerone,
I stumbled across a skimpy, but perhaps interesting, "Capacity
Planning" chapter in:
_Oracle Forms Server Release 6i: Deploying Forms Applications
to the Web with Oracle Forms Server for Windows and Unix_
http://docs.oracle.com/a84664/SHIPHOME/DOC/product_0/index.htm
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http://docs.oracle.com/a84664/SHIPHOME/DOC/product_0/a73071.pdf
(starting at http://docs.oracle.com, click:
database | tools| MS Win NT | Oracle(r) Tools Version CD Pack v8...)
They contrast scability for small and medium (no large) dbs on
Intel vs. Sun (2 processors only!), and talk of things on the order
of 500 NT users for "small" dbs, 300 NT users (max) for "medium" dbs.
Of course since the document is about a year old, they are talking
about a PII 2 processor Intel 200Mhz server as "small" and a PII 2
processor 400Mhz server as "medium"!
Also, in the Oracle8i (Enterprise?) Install docs, they discuss
support for RAM>4GB on NT (and Win2000) but this requires XEON,
and special drivers. Unles I'm confusing that toic with some of the
other mass of Oracle/NT stuff I've read lately, you can only run one
Oracle instance with the oversized (>4gb) NT memory configuration on
XEON.
Sorry I'm not well enough versed in the nuances of RAID for large
servers to say much (except get about the most high-end controllers
you can afford). If you can get ahold of him, or can wait until he
isn't so busy, Paul Drake of this list is the resident RAID/hardware
expert.
Other resources (sorry if you've already seen them):
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http://www.geocities.com/tbcox23/generic_oracle_nt_config.pdf
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http://www.geocities.com/tbcox23
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http://www.ultratech-llc.com/Personal/Files/
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http://www.ultratech-llc.com/Personal/Files/?File=RAID.TXT
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http://www.ultratech-llc.com/Personal/Files/?File=ServerSpecs.TXT
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http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/?File=Hardware.TXT
regards,
ep
On 17 Apr 2001, at 12:11, Streeter, Lerone A LBX wrote:
Date sent: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:11:22 -0800
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...
> why NT? familiarity and comfort. we've asked and everyone doted on
> oracle's ability to run on NT just as well as *nix and being that we have 0
> *nix boxes mgmt of course wanted NT. we looked for support in having oracle
> on *nix but found none and accepted the offering.
...
>>...right now we have about 100 users and a 20G DB which *will*
>> increase to probably 300 users and 40G to 50G DB; on average we're
>> looking at about thirty thousand transactions over an 11 hour
>> period; again that'll probably increase to 70,000 to 80,000
>> transactions over an 11 hour period. reads/writes/queries/indexes,
>> their size and speed, and other such processing metrics, were
>> never a concern.
...
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