I would second that, but also make an addendum. It's policy for us to wait six months after a release to implement a new operating system. We run subsets (in our case Oracle) of production to see if anything crops up. At least wait until the first RSU is out.
Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Oracle Stress Testing > > If you're thinking about just swapping the underlying OS > without doing the same amount of testing you did with z/VM > 5.1, I would say that is a _very_ bad idea. > > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jim Knox > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Oracle Stress Testing > > > Hello, > > We installed Oracle 10g under SLES9 and zVM 5.1 with the intention of > consolidating 2 PSeries Oracle servers. It would be nice to > import the > databases to 10g and stress test them on their new home. But > I am unsure what tools are available to automate lots of > users making lots of requests. Does anyone know what > tools/options exist? Note, this is a one time test so I > doubt we would want to purchase something. > > A second (completely unrelated) question: Our proof of > concept ends pretty close to the time z/VM 5.2 becomes GA - > around mid-October from what I heard. > I'm thinking if the changes to 5.2 are significant, we could > re-install VM prior to our go live. Or we could just leave > the 5.1 version in tact and use it as is. Any thoughts on this? > > thanks..............Jim > Baycare Health System > Tampa, FL > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
