Hey,

We are considering to deploy an ORACLE 10g shared-storage cluster
(guarded by RAC) with 3,000 transaction/sec! The consulting team
provides three alternatives:

[1] 2x IBM hs40 Servers (4x Xeon 3.0G + 16G RAM) + 2 x IBM hs20
Servers (2 x Xeon 3.6G + 16G RAM) running RH 3.0 AS
[2] 4x Sun V40z Servers (4x Opteron + 16G RAM) with Solaris 9 for X86

To me I acctually prefer choice 2 as IBM's system prices extremely
high these days and nearly no reference on the market for certain
database usage. However, management requires rock-hard evidence Sun
superceeds IBM on this database run. Can any experienced Sun
architects or testers help to tell:

[1] whether Sun V40z servers can run stably with Oracle 10g clusters
sustaining similar ebiz site with high volume of database access
[2] can aforementioned alternative 2 be replaced by Sun V480 server
clusters ( 4x 1.2G SPARC III + 16 G RAM)

Thanks!

LW