your thoughts: HPUX/Oracle --> Intel/RedHat/Oracle

[Kevin_31]

Hello, as I say in my thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=724298 (where I'm mostly, but not quite, there with the linux access to a SAN lun.)

I'm pretty new to running Linux for anything other than a basic webserver or few desktops.

I'm experimenting with RH 3.0 & Oracle 9.2.0.1.0 and so far pretty good.

(Oracle looks fine after making changes to kernel params, etc. suggested on OracleMetalink, etc.)

My Environment at the moment:
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Linux hostname 2.4.21-4.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 3 17:52:56 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
more /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon)
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Points for anyone who has done anything similar (or different which may be useful) and can comment in a reply here.

Some random questions: (feel free to answer any which I haven't known to ask yet!)

I haven't even looked at Suse, should I?

Is LVM dependable? (only released with last kernel, me thinks)

HP/Compac ILO or serial console server ("out of bound" like Cyclades.com do for £1K?)

Cheers and thanks in advance for all and any feedback,

Kevi

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Is LVM dependable? Yes, very.

I think the secure web console is good enough for most purposes.

I still think that HPUX is a better platform for Oracle. I've done both, and find it to be a more reliable, more scalable, better tested OS.

Its also substantially easier to patch than Linux.

I've been running into some rather serious quality control problems with RH Enterprise 3.0. Samba doesn't function right, and I just had the kernel possibly crash on a production web server.

Figuring out the reasons why was not as striaghtforward as on HP-UX.

I'm HP-UX CSA and could probably pass the Red Hat test if I bothered to buy a book and study for it. I see RH improving and gaining ground on HP-UX, but if I had to bet my entire livlihood on an OS, it would by HP-UX.

SEP

[xyko_1]

Hi Kevin,

I don't understand exactly what is you point, sorry about my english.

I'm running a few Oracle 9.2.0.5 over RHAS 2.1 on HP and IBM (sorry HP friends) IA32 SMP servers, attached to a EMC Clariion CX600 in a SAN, and the performance and stability is excelent. It's very important that all you environment be officialy supported by all hardware and software vendors, specialy the storage vendor.

RHAS 2.1 update 5 (the last one) is very stable. I know nothing about 3.0 because I don't use it, but I know that 3.0 supports LVM.

SuSe is excelent. I'm running a very small Oracle instance over United Linux that is made based on SuSe. SuSe tends to be more agressive on new features and has a very good GUI tool for customise the system (Yast).

Hope it helps.
Xyko