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We are on AIX servers here and they are very reliable. I
came from and HP shop and nothing beats that for reliability but the cost is too
steep for a state agency.
Ruth
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Subject: RE: AIX vs Solaris
Bill;
I came from a shop that ran AIX servers and
Oracle 7.3.4 to 8.1.7. As for
the OS and Oracle, all our 7.3.4
scripts worked just fine when we were under
8.1.7.... we used the k-shell
exclusively as well. I do not think you have
any problems
there.
As for AIX in particular ..... I loved it. It was very
easy to manage and
update. Plus, the journal file system was
supurb. We had very few crashes
on the hardware (at the time we were
running an S70a with over 70 or so SSA
drives). We did have a couple
system crashes due to failed hardware ... but
when the system came back up
the journals would automatically replay and our
Oracle systems would come
back with no recovery neccessary.
As for maintenance .... we had a
contract with IBM where they were out to
our location within 24 hrs ....
and they were very efficient. I remember
they Engineer staying there
with us for about 48 hours as we all tried to
find the problem with the
hardware (turned out to be a 25 dollar circuit on
the hot swap drive
tray). The point is .... they had very good
service
techs.
What I also liked on AIX was the ease at file system
setup, patch
application and tracking, and overall System
Administration.
(Yes , I am biased towards AIX).
At my new
location we are running Solaris with a Netapp filer .....
nice
combination. The WAFL file system on the netapp is most
excellent for use
with Oracle.
The bad side of AIX was always the
cost. The hardware was damn costly , the
software was damn costly,
and the maintenance contract was damn costly
...... get the trend
here ??
Well, there is my two cents worth.
You might go out to
Suns site and get the list of features for their OS and
then go to IBMs
site and get its features list and compare.
Good
luck
Kevin
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ORACLE-L
Hello,
What are the major differences between
AIX and Solaris regarding
operating system features?
We are planning
a new machine purchase; currently we are on a Sun machine
running Solaris,
but IBM is making a strong proposal to management
(meaning significantly
less cost), and we are wondering what would need to
be
changed. We use
korn shell scripts extensively, and features such as
crontab, background
processing, the sqlplus <<EOF ... EOF construct (not
sure what this
is called). I'm fairly sure these are standard in most
flavors of unix, but
I have never had contact with AIX. Does anyone know
what features differ
between the two OS's?
If we went with Solaris, we would go with Solaris
9 running Oracle 9.2
on a Sun 4800.
Thanks for any
responders.
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