Re: To ODA or Not?
- From: Jeff Chirco <backseatdba@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:26:17 -0700
You are right, it is mostly a financial and logistics decision.
"Do you have people who can handle Linux?" Maybe handle it, but an expert?
No. But isn't the whole thing with ODA is kind of set it and forget it?
Somewhat serious and joking at the same time here. How much support is
really required on the OS. Not much OS monitoring currently has they are
not over utilized.
Thanks for the reply.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Mladen Gogala <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 03/27/2015 04:39 PM, Jeff Chirco wrote:
>
> I had another thread started about the ODA but I wanted to separate it out.
> I am currently up for a hardware refresh and tossing around the idea of
> Oracle Database Appliance. But in my environment I am not sure if it just
> that easy.
>
> It's primarily financial and logistics decision. So, there are several
> questions you should ask:
>
>
> - Are you saving any money by switching to ODA?
> - Are you getting any new capabilities or losing any old capabilities?
> If yes, what are you getting and what are you losing?
> - Do you have people who can handle Linux? Are they easy to come by in
> your town? Switching to another OS means having a whole new list of
> requirements: backup, monitoring, diagnostics? You will probably need
> someone to handle all of that.
> - What do you use for OS monitoring now? SCOM will not do the trick
> with Linux.
> - Is your application adjusted to RAC environment and, if not, how
> easy would it be to adjust it?
>
> The decision you're talking about is primarily a business decision and
> cannot be made on oracle-l.
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> Oracle DBAhttp://mgogala.freehostia.com
>
>
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