Re: Appliances
- From: "~Jeff~" <jifjif@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:44:19 +1200
Hi Howard
Not sure what "safe" means, but...
we evaluated ODA last year, but in our case (reluctantly) turned it down
because:
- only 11.2 was available. We have several critical legacy systems which
use 9.2, 10.2 so that was a showstopper.
- disk was not expandable at that point. I understand that's been
addressed via NFS now.
It was nice that you could run non-RAC EE and license some fraction of the
available cores. Our old db server has license for 4 "processors" (ie 8
cores) and it would be difficult to get budget for more. And I would take
the performance profile of a recent Intel Xeon over a T4 any day :)
For a use case where you don't mind giving Oracle access to the server and
have a set of databases that can all run on 11.2 and be patched
simultaneously, it would make sense.
At least, this was how we understood it after liaising with the pre-sales
guys.
cheers-
jeff
On 15 May 2013 02:19, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We have spoken to Oracle sales after a long holiday and they are steering
> us hard toward Oracle Appliances to reduce the multiple core's cost. Are we
> safe with that route?
> Howard A. Latham
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