K580 install

[Edgar_8]

Hi,

We have an existing K580(4x9 Gb internal disks; 4x240 mhz CPU; 512 MB memory; 1x1Gb network card) running HP-UX10.20
and want to cleaninstall HP-UX 11i(March 2003 release); Oracle 9i. Prior to cleaninstall we will ignite image existing
set-up.
Does anyone forsee any problems running HP-UX 11i & Oracle 9i on a K580 with the above hardware?

Thanks in advance!

[Pete Randall]

Edgar,

None at all from my vantage point (though I can't speak to any Oracle issues).


Pete

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Edgar,

Your K580 is supported for 11.i

http://devrsrc1.external.hp.com/STK/serversupport.html

The only trouble I see is the memory, 512 mb is not very much.

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

[RAC_1]

I do see problem with that. The point that I want to make is oracle is memory hungry. with oracle 9i and HP-UX 11i, to get best performance I would recommand you to upgrade memory.

This further depends on what this machine used for? Is this productio/development machine? Databse size, users on machine.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

hi

512 mg memory will cause problems, more required.

Paula

[Pete Randall]

Sorry, Edgar, I missed the memory. As others point out, 512MB is nowhere near sufficient for reasonable Oracle performance. You can probably get it to run, but your users aren't going to be very happy.


Pete

[Marco Santerre]

I don't foresee any problems either except that you are a little low on memory. The other thing I would also suggest to do is verify that all your I/O cards are supported by 11i.

[Edgar_8]

Hi,

Aplogies,we just ran a /opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest & the reported main memory value is 3849 MB(3.8 Gb). We
hope this would be sufficient to run an oracle 9i database, storing approx.800 Gb? Please elaborate on having the
correct hardware/interface cards?

Regards,

[A. Clay Stephenson]

3.8GB should be adequate -- although this box will be far from a screamer. You would probably get much better performance from even a single processer newer box. You don't mention how your 800GB is attached --- note that (with the exception of SE-SCSI which is rarely used for external storage on a K) the SCSI connections are all high-voltage differential (HVD) rather than the much more common LVD SCSI. The two are absolutely incompatiable. It's very common for 9i boxes to run 16GB SGA's (and larger) but as long as you have realistic expectations this K-box should suffice. Running a fairly large 9i implementation on this platform will require that the SQL be well coded and the database properly indexed.

[Tim Sanko]

First of all certain non hsc cards definitely aren't supported. Check the compatibility list for info..

Secondly memory on hpux 11.i with oracle 9i is a scant resource. We have had to go from 8 GB to 16 GB on our VBOX. If you get close to a swap condition you may be slower than in a swapping condition...

If you have measureware this is a great time to use it...

Tim