[Building Sakai] Oracle Exadata

[Blake Wilson]

Hi,

Here at the University or Western Ontario we are considering the 
purchase of an Oracle Exadata server to run our Oracle databases. We 
have PeopleSoft applications for HE, HR and Finance as well as Sakai 
2.9.2 running. My concern is with the Sakai environment. We currently 
use a Oracle T3 server and Solaris 10. Does anyone have any experience 
with Sakai running on Exadata?

Exadata is a Linux based machine. I assume Oracle Linux 6. I don't see 
that as a problem. The Exadata server uses Oracle RAC as a standard. I 
have found older posts that have described issues with Oracle RAC. Does 
anyone have any recent issues or successes using RAC? We have seen 
issues with row lock contention and deadlocks in our current environment.

Thanks,
Blake Wilson
DBA
University of Western Ontario