Re: [gentoo-user] OT - recommendations for a high availability Oracle server
On Friday 17 June 2005 20:55, Antoine wrote: > Hi, > Our company is going to be bidding for a contract that will require > about 45 lan connections (08:00 to 20:00) and a few web connections to > an Oracle database. > The contract states that we can only have 1 hr max downtime per month > (pretty generous really, I thought) and the boss, his head in dark and > nether regions, is, of course, looking at winders servers. > I must admit, I have no knowledge in this area, except that Windows is > not the best choice for high availability! Or is it? Seeing as it pretty > much only has to run Oracle, what would people suggest? Linux (and if > Linux - Redhat, Suse, Gentoo,...)? BSD? Or would it definitely be worth > the dolleros to go for an AIX or Solaris + Hardware solution? Or is he > right in thinking that Server 2003 is best? > We would obviously not be able to spend massive amounts, so a $3+ > solution is not on the cards... > Cheers > Antoine > ps. we have only x86 servers at the moment mostly running server 2000 or > 2003, but the admin would rather be running linux... hm, Dell, hp and IBM are selling some nice linux-boxes.. all you have to do is to tell them what you want and to help your boss, when his heart makes 'boom' because of the $$$. But at least, you'll would have someone responsible, when something goes wrong. And that it the most important point. Don't make the box for yourself, buy it. Solaris is a very safe choice, also AIX, but maybe you should talk to someone at oracle ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - recommendations for a high availability Oracle server
On Friday 17 June 2005 19:55, Antoine wrote: > Our company is going to be bidding for a contract that will require > about 45 lan connections (08:00 to 20:00) and a few web connections to > an Oracle database. > The contract states that we can only have 1 hr max downtime per month > (pretty generous really, I thought) and the boss, his head in dark and > nether regions, is, of course, looking at winders servers. > I must admit, I have no knowledge in this area, except that Windows is > not the best choice for high availability! Or is it? Seeing as it pretty > much only has to run Oracle, what would people suggest? Linux (and if > Linux - Redhat, Suse, Gentoo,...)? BSD? Or would it definitely be worth > the dolleros to go for an AIX or Solaris + Hardware solution? Or is he > right in thinking that Server 2003 is best? > We would obviously not be able to spend massive amounts, so a $3+ > solution is not on the cards... I know of a big-ass HA Oracle system at a previous employer. It was an Oracle 9i RAC system, consisting of 3x boxes, dual fibre channel switches, dual FC arrays stuffed with SCSI disks, and finally a big quad CPU box as a failover for the failover/redundant/resilient RAC! I think there was a master server for the RAC in there too. That system IS NOT going down, at all, ever (unless something absolutely catastrophic happens, all the kit is in the same room). All Dell stuff, running RedHat. As Byron says, RedHat is one of the few distros Oracle will support. SLES is another, and thats what we run our Oracle 8 installs on. -- Mike Williams pgpq6vwvQ0Wwz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - recommendations for a high availability Oracle server
Antoine wrote: > Hi, > Our company is going to be bidding for a contract that will require > about 45 lan connections (08:00 to 20:00) and a few web connections to > an Oracle database. > The contract states that we can only have 1 hr max downtime per month > (pretty generous really, I thought) and the boss, his head in dark and > nether regions, is, of course, looking at winders servers. > I must admit, I have no knowledge in this area, except that Windows is > not the best choice for high availability! Or is it? Seeing as it pretty > much only has to run Oracle, what would people suggest? Linux (and if > Linux - Redhat, Suse, Gentoo,...)? BSD? Or would it definitely be worth > the dolleros to go for an AIX or Solaris + Hardware solution? Or is he > right in thinking that Server 2003 is best? > We would obviously not be able to spend massive amounts, so a $3+ > solution is not on the cards... > Cheers > Antoine > ps. we have only x86 servers at the moment mostly running server 2000 or > 2003, but the admin would rather be running linux... We run Oracle 10g RAC and Grid quite successfully on about 12 RedHat Enterprise Servers. We chose RedHat mainly because it's the only Linux distro that Oracle will support, as far as I know. I've heard of people getting Oracle to install and run on Gentoo but I imagine it requires a bit of tweaking/hacking not to mention that you won't get any support from Oracle when something breaks. The servers themselves are Dell PowerEdge 2850's, not insane powerhouses but quite robust. Byron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - recommendations for a high availability Oracle server
On Jun 17, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Antoine wrote: Hi, Our company is going to be bidding for a contract that will require about 45 lan connections (08:00 to 20:00) and a few web connections to an Oracle database. The contract states that we can only have 1 hr max downtime per month (pretty generous really, I thought) and the boss, his head in dark and nether regions, is, of course, looking at winders servers. I must admit, I have no knowledge in this area, except that Windows is not the best choice for high availability! Or is it? Seeing as it pretty much only has to run Oracle, what would people suggest? Linux (and if Linux - Redhat, Suse, Gentoo,...)? BSD? Or would it definitely be worth the dolleros to go for an AIX or Solaris + Hardware solution? Or is he right in thinking that Server 2003 is best? We would obviously not be able to spend massive amounts, so a $3+ solution is not on the cards... Cheers Antoine ps. we have only x86 servers at the moment mostly running server 2000 or 2003, but the admin would rather be running linux... I have not run Oracle, but Oracle is certified on Linux so build a redundant Linux box (RAID 10 or 5 with hot spares), redundant power supplies, and have a spare motherboard and memory sticks available, and for a budget that you seem to imply, this should stay up and running as good or or probably better than the winders. The winders would be my last choice. Too many sites I know of running winders are down more than the allowed amount you specify. Chad -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
