Clay,
I've not heard that before, but we have no REDO issues at all. Really no I/O
issues at all, and we do have some pretty massive DML going on in the DBs on
the X8s. Our problem is Vendor-written or our own Developer-written SQL that's
just bad or doesn't scale up from their simple test cases. Worst ones have
Explain Plan Costs of 10s or even 100s of Billions. I do a lot of session
killing. "It's good to be King."
--
Jack C. Applewhite - Database Administrator
Austin I.S.D. - MIS Department
512.414.9250 (wk)
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be
solved by your departure. -- Mark Twain
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Hi, Jeff and Jack –
I’ll admit, I’ve been out of the hardware arena for a while now; but one of
bits of “conventional wisdom” that I recall is that “SSD is not recommended for
write-intensive operations”. Are you seeing any performance issues with your
redo?
Thanks!
Clay Jackson
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Jeff,
We love these X8s now that we've learned more about them and multitenant. The
best part is 100% SSD storage - no more I/O bottlenecks at all. Choosing ASM
instead of ACFS like we originally had to do with our X5s and going Bare Metal
instead of Virtualized are the next two very good things. Our management
hamstrung us a bit by only getting them with the minimum 12 TB raw storage each
- 6 TB mirrored. We need more and may get it later this year. We're very happy
not to have to deal with the HA layers on these X8s. We've never done RAC and
never will.
Oracle Techs botched the initial install of ODA version 18.7, so I learned how
to reimage and patch the things. Our SysAdmin created a VMWare Ubuntu Linux VM
for me and installed the Iced Tea utility that allowed the ILOM remote console
to run in it. That makes it where I could do all the reimaging, patching, etc.
remotely - no trips to the data center.
I got both X8s to the 18.8 ODA version, then migrated several Production
11.2.0.4 DBs to 18.8. Prior to this we had zero experience with multitenant,
having passed on upgrading to 12c all these years. If you're on 12c and know
the architecture, you'll be in good shape. Over our Thanksgiving and Winter
Breaks I patched us up to 19.6. Once we address a minor issue I encountered,
I'll patch up to 19.8, where we'll stay for a good while.
In the Fall I reimaged one of our X5s to 19.8 Bare Metal and ASM so we could
migrate 11gR2 DBs off our old X4s and retire them. We're still migrating DBs
from them to this X5.
It's too much right now, but I'd be happy to share my experience with which
utilities work best under which circumstances - odacli, odaadmcli, dbca, dbua,
BUI, EM Express, etc.
--
Jack C. Applewhite - Database Administrator
Austin I.S.D. - MIS Department
512.414.9250 (wk)
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be
solved by your departure. -- Mark Twain
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Hi Jack its been a year now with your new ODA X8-2Ms and I was wondering what
your thoughts are? How has patching been? We are considering a 2M and a 2-HA
model, however the HA model will not be used for RAC. Everything will be a
single instance.
I would love to hear your thoughts. This is a big decision for us. Currently we
are on small 4 CPU Dell servers. Everything is going well but we need to up our
CPU count and a storage refresh is on the table as well, currently we have
NetApp. Storage Admins want to move off NetApp so the ODA sounds appealing.
Jeff
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:06 AM Jack Applewhite
<jack.applewhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:jack.applewhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
We loved, loved, loved our X4 and X5 ODAs for a good while. Great integrated
package of host, storage, OS, CPU, memory, etc. for a good price. We did not
and will not use them or any machines for RAC, so all the HA and Grid pieces
were a nuisance, becoming a nightmare when applying the ODA patches. If
something gets misaligned, the house of cards tumbles. We've still got
persistent problems with one X4 and one X5 that Oracle Support can't help with
- all due to the Grid pieces. Now we hate, hate, hate those ODAs.
However, we're getting two new machines and, guess what, they're ODAs. The
difference this time is that they're X8-2Ms, which have zero Grid and RAC
built-in stuff. They're just SSD storage, memory, and CPU. We'll get them
installed Bare Metal with 19c. They are a well-priced package and we're hoping
easier to support and patch, given their simpler configuration.
So, in a couple months I'll be able to report on how they are treating us.
--
Jack C. Applewhite - Database Administrator
Austin I.S.D. - MIS Department
512.414.9250 (wk)
I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be
solved by your departure. -- Mark Twain
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Yes, both Upendra and Andy are correct. You don't want an ODA. I too have some
horror stories from my tenure at Commvault, but a NDA prevents me from sharing
anything.
On 11/27/19 1:57 PM, Upendra nerilla wrote:
If Andrew's stores aren't enough and if you want more.. PM me.. ??
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1. You do not want an ODA.
2. You do not want an ODA.
You can PM me for horror stories.
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:40 PM Joseph Reid
<jreid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:jreid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi all,
is there a tool/script to do a assessment for the Oracle Database Appliance? We
need help in determining our requirements as to what size of Database
Appliance would be needed.
Thank you,
Joseph Reid
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Andrew W. Kerber
'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
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Mladen Gogala
Database Consultant
Tel: (347) 321-1217
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