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  • 1.  Migrating Oracle on Power 7 to Power 8 or Intel VMware

    Posted Thu July 17, 2014 04:27 PM

    Originally posted by: deesk


    We are currently running Oracle on a Power 770 with 20 processors and 480 gig of memory. We have over 100 instances spread across 6 Lpars and most of the day we spike to over 19 processors. Next year the lease will expire on the frame and I have been asked to look at the possibility of another Power box running AIX or some Intel solution on Linux in a VMWare environment. I would prefer moving to the new Power8 machine running AIX, however cost is always a factor in the investigation. 

    Has anyone successfully looked at this? Has anyone actually done this type if migration? I would also entertain speaking with anyone also...

    How hard was the project? Any recommendations? I want to say I do like AIX and Power!

     

     



  • 2.  Re: Migrating Oracle on Power 7 to Power 8 or Intel VMware

    Posted Mon July 21, 2014 03:32 AM

    Originally posted by: j.gann


    do your calculations on oracle licenses. in past projects I worked on this was the major reason to invest in power.



  • 3.  Re: Migrating Oracle on Power 7 to Power 8 or Intel VMware

    Posted Mon July 21, 2014 08:16 AM

    Originally posted by: deesk


    Thanks, obviously the hardware will always be cheaper, I will let our DBA manager figure that out.



  • 4.  Re: Migrating Oracle on Power 7 to Power 8 or Intel VMware

    Posted Tue July 22, 2014 05:39 PM

    Originally posted by: Pave1


    perhaps even here you can find some useful hints: http://www.lpar2rrd.com/Migration_to_POWER8.pdf

    Cheers, Pavel

     



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