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How Telstra saved more than 2 million Aussie bucks using Grid Control
Feb 14 2009, 12:02 AM EST | Post edited: Feb 14 2009, 12:02 AM EST
Since 2004 to early 2006, I was involved with this project as the Senior
Database Consultant in the Database Technologies team. We were the first
in the world to use Oracle 10g Grid Control Release 1 in production
(now on Release 4).

Case study link: http://www.oracle.com/customers/snapshots/telstra-em-bbs-case-study.pdf

A friend wrote:

>Porus: Thank You. What Server Platform [Hardware/Software] Sun-Solaris,
>Dell-Linux, HP-Linux, other. Are you able to disclose more detailed
>architecture characteristics: number nodes, number instances/database,
>load-balancing assignments, memory region allocations, etc

We used HP-Red Hat Linux for all 32-bit servers. We had 3 management servers, with 4 CPUs each, and 8 GB RAM. We had 1 database server and 1 Dataguard standby server with the same configuration. We had a pair of Big-IP load balancers, one live, one standby. The load balancers handled the console requests as well as the agent uploads. This configuration was able to achieve the management and monitoring of more than 600 servers and databases at that time, and still growing. Scale-out possible by just adding more management servers and moving the database to RAC. The configuration was fully certified by Oracle who were working with us on-site since it was the first production Grid Control in the world.

Another friend wrote:
> Thanks - now only if we can convince our clients!

Sure you can convince your clients. Just tell them how much automation Grid Control can achieve with its "manage many as one" philosophy. DBAs can achieve a lot more instead of being tied down with the nitty gritty.

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