friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) (07/04/90)
Hi folks,
I am posting this for one of the guys in the office. Please
reply via email...
A customer of ours has an AT&T 3B2/600 supporting about 30 users
who are doing general OA stuff. They would like to add a new
application written in Oracle 6.0 which would bring the user base
up to about (ahem) 120 total users with about 90 of them
concurrent. All of the users will be working from the same data
files.
One option is to scrap the 3B2 and go to a bigger box. Before we
do that, we wanted to look at the feasibility of adding a second
3B2, running Starlan 10 between them and share the database
between the two machines. We are having real troubles getting
answers out of Oracle about this scenario. Can anyone help with
these questions?
It strikes me that RFS is not the best idea, because there has to be
some kind of server mechanism that will let remote processes (on
remote machines) submit their requests via TCP or some other
related transport mechanism.
- Assuming we get the RDBMS, TPO, SQL Plus and the Report Writer
for one machine (the server), what do we need for the second machine?
- How clean is this to setup and administrate? The customer has
no technical staff at all.
- Does any of the application software need to know about this?
- For the network stuff, is Starlan OSI adequate?
If the 3B2 is a ridiculous route, we are open to suggestions on
other machines (with Sequent and Pyramid being first in our
minds). We don't have any choice on the Oracle front: another
consultant wrote an entire package using it and we are stuck with it.
Any input is welcome...
Steve
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Stephen J. Friedl, KA8CMY / Software Consultant / Tustin, CA / 3B2-kind-of-guy
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