Hi
Lisa,
Pick
your favorite vendor and ask 'em if they've got anything like
this:
If
it's going to be a big purchase, most vendors will send someone over to take a
look too. I remember the good 'ol days when you could call up a DEC sales rep
and tell him you wanted to by so many VUPs (VAX Units of Performance). There
were tables and formulae you could use to work up how many VUPs you needed to
run your application, so you just ordered like that, and took whatever kit they
sent you... kinda like walking into a diner and just saying "I'm very hungry,
just give
me some food!".
SGI
used to have a policy that if they'd sized a system for you and it wouldn't
deliver the transactions/sec that you were expecting, they'd upgrade your
equipment for free until it did. Unfortunately, SGI now means "soon going
insolvent" :0(
Completely off topic, but I read once that the army of
the former Soviet Empire used to size battle groups using tables and formulae
too. They could plug in variables for the strength of the enemy, the terrain,
the weather etc and their method would tell them how many of which sorts of
battalions they'd need. Maybe it was like Lee's index calculation - they'd only
get one-fifth of the tanks they needed! :0)
HTH,
g
-----Original Message-----
From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 4:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: Sizing a new serverGood morning everyone,
Lucky me, I get to choose the size of the server this company should consider purchasing. I have been poking around on the net for any guidelines - I can make guesses based upon my gut feel and how strapped the current unix server is, but I want to be able to back this up with hard numbers. This is for a dw application.
Can anyone point me to a website, book, or anything in particular that can help me justify sizing a machine? It's so fun working for a company that doesn't have a sysadmin on staff...
Thanks
Lisa Koivu
Oracle Data Bored Administrator
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
954-935-4117
