Hello, I am working with Oracle as a Solution Architect. Oracle database appliance has been one of the hot products for diverse groups of enterprise. ODA is a simple, quick, complete, affordable, HA cluster database system in a single box. I myself had an opportunity to install and play with it. We were able to install ODA RAC environment in just 53 minutes. It's a simple and complete system where software and hardware is engineered together. It comes with two nodes. You can use it as Stand alone, RAC one node or RAC. Red Hat linux 5 comes pre-installed. It is highly redundant. All the data are triple mirrored. Also, from licensing point of view, you pay as you grow. You can start with licensing 2 cores and then as you need you can license more. Miximum is 24 cores. Shared disk: 12 TB raw storage 292 GB SSD flash disks for redo logs. Top 4 disk slots. Remaining disks slots SAS drives of 600GB each. 2 Server nodes: X86 intel 12 cores per server. 96 GB memory per server. 24 cores enabled on demand Software: Oracle Linux 5.5 Oracle 11g R2 DB EE with RAC or RAC one node. Active-Passive, Active-Active Oracle grid infra 11gR2 OEM database control Automatic Service requests. *Oracle Database Appliance Collateral:* · Oracle Database Appliance Datasheet<http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/oracle-database-appliance-ds-495410.pdf> · Oracle Database Appliance main website<http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/database-appliance/database-appliance-487201.html> ** Pl Please let me know if you guys need any more information regarding this. Thanks! Th On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Joseph Reid <jreid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi all, > > > Although it is fairly new, does anyone experience with the DB Appliance? We > are looking into this product however, haven't come across anyone with any > real knowledge of the Appliance. I was hoping to get any successes or > pitfalls this product may carry. > > > > Thanks, > > > > JR > > > > > > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Thanks n Regards, Mayur Nagarsheth Cell : (+1)214-364-8271 http://www.linkedin.com/in/mayurnagarsheth http://lyle.smu.edu/~mnagarshet/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l