Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-18 Thread CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)
We just had a surprise announcement by one of the Oracle DBAs during a zLinux & Application group planning meeting at our worksite. The DBA advised us that they (Database group) were going to move/migrate all the Oracle databases that we have on zLinux boxes off to an intel/unix platform. He did no

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-18 Thread Simms, Michael
AVE A TREE. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 2:22 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field? We just had a surprise announcement by one of

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-18 Thread Barton Robinson
wow, your DBAs have the authority to spend that kind of money and make that kind of change without management signature? So no financial analysis, no technical reason, sounds religious. CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) wrote: We just had a surprise announcement by one of the Oracle DBAs during a zLinux & Ap

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-18 Thread Mike Riggs
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Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-18 Thread CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)
It's government, what do you expect ;-) James Chaplin -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 5:03 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments fro

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-18 Thread Carroll, William D
M To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field? It's government, what do you expect ;-) James Chaplin -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 5

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-21 Thread Shockley, Gerard C
Especially with 11R2 due out any minute (day). Gerard -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Barton Robinson Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 5:03 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Christopher Cox
wer7 box was even considered... If DB2 isn't an option, maybe Oracle on Power7 would be a better fit (saying without knowledge of Oracle's commitment of support there as well). From: Barton Robinson To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 03/18/2011 04:04 PM Subject: Re: Mo

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Barton Robinson
7;s commitment of support there as well). From: Barton Robinson To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Date: 03/18/2011 04:04 PM Subject: Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field? Sent by:Linux on 390 Port wow, your DBAs have the authority to spend that

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Simms, Michael
uld be similar to what is happening in James shop. We'll cross that road when we get to it. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Christopher Cox Sent: Wed 3/23/2011 11:11 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
red... If DB2 isn't an > option, maybe Oracle on Power7 would be a better fit (saying without > knowledge of Oracle's commitment of support there as well). > > > > > From: Barton Robinson > To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu > Date: 03/18/2011 04:04 PM > Subject:

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Pat Carroll
. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Christopher Cox Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:12 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field? Oracle is NOT supporting them well on zLinux. So

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
nal Message- From: Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Christopher Cox Sent: Wed 3/23/2011 11:11 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field? Oracle is NOT supporting them well on zLinux. So... there's both the financial and technica

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread David Kreuter
problems. It is religo politico - cannot argue with that type of vaporized logic. David Original Message Subject: Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field? From: Pat Carroll Date: Wed, March 23, 2011 1:30 pm To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Works *very* well here

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 03/23/2011 at 12:09 EDT, Barton Robinson wrote: > so is this guy a troll or just someone clueless (and i'm tryin to be > nice). And I assume that Alan is behind the wood shed counciling... I will graciously assume that you were referring to some other "Alan", since I am not involved

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR)
MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field? The poster must have been confusing our world with vmware. Grins. We are supported. Echoing Barton Oracle runs *VERY WELL*. IBM has experts that will come in tune the LIVING DAYLIGHTS out of Oracle - including reachin

Re: Moving Oracle off zLinux boxes -- comments from the field?

2011-03-23 Thread Saulo Silva
Hi James , There is a couple information that should be knowing before someone take some strange decision like that . The first is your machine model and size of the linux guest , and also the number of linux guest running at the same lpar . About the Oracle slow response , that would really depe