Re: ODA 12.1.2 Databases on ACFS
- From: "Job Miller" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "jobmiller@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:44:39 +0000 (UTC)
Mladen,
From the FAQ:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/oracle-database-appliance-faq-1903200.pdf
Oracle Database Appliance customers can purchase database and database option
licenses starting from a minimum of 2 processor cores, up to the Oracle
Database Appliance X5-2 system maximum of 72 processor cores.
Customers can start small, licensing only the processor cores they use and
purchase additional licenses as their business demand grows.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-appliance/documentation/oracle-database-appliance-ds-1867697.pdf
The whole setup from a hardware perspective has a list price of 60k.
The $60k gets you:
A 6U rack mountable system containing two Oracle Linux servers and one storage
shelf.
Each server features two 18 core Intel Xeon E52699 v3 processors, 256 GB of
memory, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) external networking connectivity.
The two servers are connected together via a redundant InfiniBand interconnect
for cluster communication and share direct attached high performance SAS
storage.
The appliance contains 64 TB of raw storage that’s doublemirrored or
triplemirrored, offering 32 TB or 21.3 TB, respectively, of resilient usable
database storage. In addition, there are four 400 GB solid state drives for
frequently accessed data and four 200 GB solidstate drives for database redo
logs to boost performance. The appliance is also designed with misssion
critical requirements in mind, with hotswappable and redundant components.
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If you only need to use a few cores for an HA Oracle DB, you can use the rest
of it with Oracle's VM to run your application workload as well.What you could
save in EE + RAC licensing alone makes the $60k hardware cost for a fully
configured DB appliance almost inconsequential.
Thanks,
Job
From: Mladen Gogala <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: ODA 12.1.2 Databases on ACFS
On 01/26/2015 09:43 AM, Seth Miller wrote:
> Thanks Mladen. I appreciate your feedback.
>
> ODA is certainly not just a Linux box with Oracle, ASM and ACFS. And
> yes, it is RAC.
>
> Seth Miller
>
OK, do you get any license savings? How is it licensed? Is it licensed
per CPU core or is it a fixed cost? As for the files on ACFS, I'm not
sure that's an advantage. ASM does a pretty good job by itself,
especially with the newer releases, where I can copy the files in and
out of ASM using asmcmd. In contrast with ASM, extent based file systems
like ACFS are susceptible to fragmentation and ACFS has no defragmenter.
FS snapshots are a nice thing, but every storage manufacturer has disk
snapshots. It's not a big deal.
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Mladen Gogala
Oracle DBA
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