Re: UNIX upgrade for Oracle

From: stan (stan.novinsky_at_jhuapl.edu)
Date: 03/15/04

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    Date: 15 Mar 2004 11:44:28 -0800

    Max Zinal <Zlat0@mail.ru> wrote in message news:<1079118372.845795@smtp.tvcom.ru>...
    > stan wrote:
    > > We have Oracle 8.0.5 Running on a Digital Compaq Alpha Server 8400
    > > under Digital UNIX 4.0e.
    > >
    >
    > Oh, those old nice 8400s...
    >
    > > We plan on migrating our DB from 8.0 to 9i (9.2).
    > >
    >
    > AFAIK you will have to replace your hardware.
    > Oracle 9i will not run on EV5 CPUs which are likely to be installed in
    > your server.

    I am not sure if we have the EV5 CPUs.
    Our UNIX administrator says we have the 5/625's (2 CPUs)

    >
    > > What version of Oracle 9i would we need for the upgrade and would we
    > > need to upgrade from the UNIX 4.0e OS in order to install 9i?
    > >
    >
    > You will have to move on something more modern. On Alphas, Tru64 5.1B
    > would be a correct choice. I don't think you would like an idea to
    > become a VMS man :).
    >
    > > Also,
    > > If a new version of UNIX is required, would it be better to move to
    > > HP-UX.
    > >
    >
    > It's really hard to get a good answer for this question because "better"
    > or "worse" cannot be measured and are really subjective. I suppose it
    > would be more easy to upgrade your OS to a newer version than to replace
    > it with a completely different OS. But it depends very much on your
    > applications and configuration you are currently using.
    >
    > IMHO Alpha-based servers can give you a better perfomance in comprasion
    > to PA-RISC-based ones with similiar price ranges. If you are really
    > thinking about a global switch, perhaps you should look at servers
    > by Sun and IBM - ORACLE will run nicely there. Or maybe even try
    > something like multiprocessor Xeon box - if your perfomance
    > requirements are not too high.

    Or is windows not the best solution?
    The reason we are thinking windows is that the target sites are
    migrating their other applications to Windows and would like to stay
    with that OS.

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