I remember emc acquired scaleio for this converged storage, I would say a competitor to nutanix. BTW, some of the co-founders of nutanix are ex oracle who worked on the exadata platform. I can't remember how I got that info maybe on some of their tech webinars. Once you get a POC of nutanix, maybe you can SLOB it then let us know how it goes ;) -Karl On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Jeremy Schneider < jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM, max scalf <oracle.blog3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Our company is looking into moving towards converged platform instead of > integrated platform(like exadata i think?). I just wanted to reach out to > the oracle list community and see if any one run oracle DB on nutanix > converged platform, if so what are the pro and cons? > > I don't have any experience with nunatix but it looks interesting from a > quick glance over their website. Actually the idea of > software-managed local data vs traditional SAN is very similar to exadata. > However nunatix adds some additional layers with virtualization and dedupe > and tiered I/O (flash, local, remote). Reminds me a little of nimble > storage but with an integrated compute tier - neat. the biggest risk is > simply that Oracle software just isn't optimized for this kind of platform. > For example: the database optimizer calculated and uses systems stats, > including I/O performance data - and it does not expect this I/O speed to > jump all over while the underlying platform moves data between remote disk, > local disk and local flash. Database performance could therefore be highly > unpredictable and difficult to troubleshoot. > > Personally I'd be hesitant for larger workloads but it could be a great > win for consolidating lots of smaller workloads. With the list of clients > on their website, there *must* be someone running oracle on nunatix who > just isn't speaking up on the list. :) On the other hand, their market > niche might be something else (big data?) and you might be an early adopter > of running oracle on this platform... If so, then please let us know how it > goes! > > -J > > -- > http://about.me/jeremy_schneider > > > -- Karl Arao Blog: karlarao.wordpress.com Wiki: karlarao.tiddlyspot.com Twitter: @karlarao <http://twitter.com/karlarao>