I've been contemplating getting an ODA for a while, we've never had one
but are in discussion of needing to upgrade our Dell hardware so it has
been on the table. Here are my thoughts on a couple of your points.
* -- We have "a single throat to choke" in Oracle being responsible for
everything. No finger-pointing between Dell support and Oracle support.*
most of the time flawlessly.*
Mladen,
From a strictly hardware standpoint, you're probably right. However, the
bottom to top integration of HW, Infrastructure, OS, and RDBMS is Very
handy.
-- We have "a single throat to choke" in Oracle being responsible for
everything. No finger-pointing between Dell support and Oracle support.
-- Applying ODA patches upgrades all components to a compatible level -
most of the time flawlessly.
-- We can usually use MOS notes and docs to troubleshoot errors and
problems at all levels.
-- As Andrew mentioned, the ASR feature is Very useful. We've gotten
notice that Oracle has already shipped a new drive, fan, power supply, etc.
to us before we were even aware of the failing component.
These new Bare Metal X8-2Ms, without the RAC, virtualization, and ACFS
crap, are the best packages we've ever had. Plus, we get to be root and
mostly manage them ourselves, which may not be an option in a lot of shops.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. Happily.
--
Jack C. Applewhite - Database Administrator
Austin I.S.D. - MIS Department
512.414.9250 (wk)
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Hi Jack!
What is the difference between a big Dell box with many cores and NVME
drives and ODA? What you are describing sounds like a very big and fast
PC with Linux and Oracle per-installed.
On 3/30/21 4:59 PM, Jack Applewhite wrote:
Our X8s are Bare Metal, single server machines with 100% SSD storage
and a joy. After I re-imaged them to 18.8, patching to 19.6 presented
a few problems. mainly going from OEL 6 to 7, but, with Oracle
Support, we worked them out. We are very happy with 19.6 ODA version
and RDBMS version.
--
Mladen Gogala
Database Consultant
Tel: (347) 321-1217
https://dbwhisperer.wordpress.com
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