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Best platform for this Oracle application mix

BrentSheets — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:04:47 +0000

We have decided to go for Oracle E-Business Suite ERP for Financials, HR and other business processes and Siebel for CRM along with Oracle SOA suite and Oracle BI suite. I need advice how to select the operating system platform for various application and Oracle database servers.

We are thinking of either using the Intel platform with Windows or Oracle Linux OS or using the Sun Solaris platform. The Intel platform has cost advantage while Sun may have a better integration and performance with Oracle in the long run. I need advice from the cost, performance and scalability angels. Thank you.

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Oracle installation and migration between versions in Linux

Inprise — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:31:52 +0000

Hi Experts,

I need some useful doc links or step by step procedure to perform oracle installation and migration in Linux environment

I surfed thru net ,cud not find any good docs or pdf on this

As i am new to explore this role,can any one provide me some useful related links

Free Chapter – Oracle on Linux, Analyzing Server Performance

BrentSheets — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:04:07 +0000

Another free chapter download is available on the IT Bookworm Blog.

Written by: Darl Kuhn, Charles Kim and Bernard Lopuz
Book: Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs

Overview: “Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs is an example-based book on managing Oracle Database in a Linux environment. Covering commonly used distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Enterprise Linux, the book is written for database administrators who need to get work done and lack the luxury of curling up fireside with a stack of Linux documentation. The book is task-oriented: Look up the task to perform. See the solution. Read up on the details. Get the job done.”

Chapter 8: Analyzing Server Performance

How number of processors correlated to Oracle database size

626 — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:16:34 +0000

Is there a guideline to determine how many processors to use (in unix OS) according to the Oracle database size?

Oracle 11g RAC on HP C3000 blade with Bl460c servers using SB40c as storage

1014 — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:00:37 +0000

Has anyone built a oracle 11g or 10g RAC on HP Blade C3000. A typical setup could be 4 X Bl460c blade servers using 4 X SB40c storage blade ( giving 24 X 146 GB SAS drives ). Both the blade servers and storage will fit in the same blade enclosure. OS could be oracle enterprise Linux The advantages would be.

- shared stored on the blade enclosure meaning no need for SAN or NAS.
- shared stored on the blade enclosure meaning no need for HBAs
- no need for private LAN as servers will internally communicate via backplane.

The question is has anyone build this and if so what was the experience?