Re: nutanix
- From: max scalf <oracle.blog3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Jeremy Schneider <jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:03:59 -0500
Hi Jeremy,
You definitely bring up a great point with regards to CBO, but wouldnt that
apply to exadata as wel? Sorry i have not worked on Exadata but i thought
exadata had some thing similar where it his multiple flash disk and sata
kind of disk and it moves the data around, i might be wrong on that, also
wouldnt that same case apply to traditional model as well when we have SAN
in place, as the data is caches in SGA first and then most probably in the
SAN Cache and different tires of storage on SAN?.....but definitely a great
point for us to keep in mind...
We are in early stage of this process and according the Nutanix rep's they
have big enterprises running oracle/SAP on there system and have not seen
any major issue. One other concern that i had was, they use NFS but that
is not visible to the VM's that is all handled by controller VM...
Below is a great in depth blog with regards to Nutanix, for those who are
interested...
http://stevenpoitras.com/the-nutanix-bible/
@Karl,
You are correct....some of the co-founders of natanix worked on exadata
platform and also google's File system and they call there file system -
NDFS(Nutanix distributed file system)...
And yes once we get the hardware in place i am going to use SLOB and also
swingbench to see how it performs.
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
>
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>
>
>
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