ach, the PAIN.... a customer wants an Oracle server, his advisor told him to get a funny combination of new technologies to get the fastest throughput. (5000 transactions a minute, no less!) or whatever the scale was (I never figured out how transactions can be a measuring unit, it's like estimating car speed by the number of bugs hitting your windshield).
in any case, the nice advisor insists that the two machine cluster of dual xeon nodes runs 64bit, which means going for Oracle 10g, and SLES-9. on the suse website I read that 9.3 is out, when I ask for eval images it sends me to the Novell download server to get the needed files, all named SLES-9-x86-64-RC5-CD[1-6].iso umm... is it a release candidate or a final version? RC5 of WHICH SLES-9? is it 9.0 or 9.3? Is the Oracle certification marked "SLES-9" means 9.3 is as certified as 9.2 or 9.0?! then comes the next pain... the backup system is CA, and they have nothing out for X86-64 yet. I have no idea how SuSE and RH encapsulate 32-bit support on the new AMD64 systems, but I think I can guess a 32 bit backup agent module and the 64 bit OS and Oracle will not play nice. If anyone knows the answer to that (I lack the bandwidth to actually test it in time) I'll listen gladly, on list of off it. -- Works in mysterious ways Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
