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Companies are migrating away from large IBM, HP, or Sun hardware to commodity hardware running Linux. With the readily available 18-core Intel chips at affordable prices, companies can run massive Linux compute nodes at a fraction of the cost of enterprise UNIX servers on IBM, HP, and Sun. Linux is proven to have rock-solid OSs that provide extreme reliability similar to its counterpart UNIX OSs such as IBM AIX, HP/UX, and Sun Solaris. With proper optimizations, Linux can scale like its counterparts and run Oracle databases even faster. Think about a single compute node on an Exadata X5-2 configuration. It comes with 36 CPU cores and up to 768GB of physical memory. If you run a 2-node RAC for a Quarter Rack, you can harness 72 cores of processing power and approximately 1.5TB of memory.
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© 2015 Darl Kuhn, Charles Kim, and Bernard Lopuz
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Kuhn, D., Kim, C., Lopuz, B. (2015). Chapter 13: Optimizing Linux for Oracle Databases. In: Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1254-7_13
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