Oracle on the mainframe. Here are a few highlights done here
1. Have Oracle DB on z/OS but it is functionally stablized in the 31 bit mode.
2. Have z/VM LPAR & Virtual Linux systems:
a. Oracle DB in 64 bit mode which use Websphere Application Server
running on another Virtual Linux.
b. Oracle DB in 64 bit mode and Oracle Application Server
c. DB2 in 64 bit mode with Websphere Application Server
3. Another variation has Oracle DB in 64 bit mode in a Virtual Linux Server on
the z/VM LPAR with the application running in Websphere in a z/OS Parallel
Sysplex.
4. Consider Oracle licenses are the same for a 2-Core Server (or laptop)
equates to 1-IFL (0.50 Intel Core = 1-IFL) on
z800/890/900/990/z9BC/z9EC/z10. If you are talking about AIX/UNIX, then it
is 0.75 Core = 1-IFL.
You should get onto a z/VM talklist where they have adopted zLinux under
z/VM with a passion. You can contact me offlist for some material I have
written over the last few years concerning what you would need and the
choices for support, etc. QUITE reasonable in cost when you factor in what
an IFL can do with all those Virtual Penguins running things like Oracle, DB2,
Websphere, Firewalls (free), Routers (free) , z/VM VLANs (free), Switches
(free) and miles and miles of FAST free virtual cabling not to mention all
those
virtual twist-ties to organize things.
jim
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