Linux Virtual Server At Oracle OpenWorld

Late afternoon yesterday, I attended a session at Oracle OpenWorld called "JD Edwards Web Server High Availability with Oracle Enterprise Linux".  It was given by Marcelo Tamassia, CD Group, Inc. Oracle Technology Manager, and Tony Price, Carolina Biological Supply. 

They explained a technology called Linux Virtual Server (LVS).  LVS is used as a low cost load balancing and high availability solution.  Fortunately, it is available in most Linux kernels.  So, you can use it even if you don’t have Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Essentially, it is two low-end servers or high-end workstations that are running LVS placed between the end user and your web servers.  This little cluster is used as a sort of proxy to direct traffic to the web servers.

I hope to give more info on this as I play around with it.

Tags: e1, jd edwards, linux, linux, oracle, Oracle OpenWorld, world

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Red, Blue, Purple or Green?

Currently, the installations that I support are Blue, I guess.

We have an IBM System i/DB400 Enterprise Server and Database with IBM Websphere running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (not sure if that makes us part green or not).

In the next few weeks, we will be starting a project to upgrade our E1 Tools Release to 8.97.  As a part of that upgrade, we are going to look at installing Oracle Application Server and possibly replace Websphere.  I am also a little curious about using OAS on Linux.  So, I might try to get that setup too.

There is a great thread on JDEList that talks about some of the pros/cons of each, but you may have to wade through a couple miss-directions to get the most value.  The great part is that many of those that responded are very experienced CNC Admins.

What would you use, especially if there were no push from management in either direction?

 

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Oracle AIA, Fusion Middleware and SOA

Andrews Consulting as a great article series on The JD Edwards Advisor about Oracle’s application direction and how it effects EnterpriseOne (E1).

In the latest installment (Part 3), Lee explains Oracle’s direction with AIA and Fusion Middleware.

I think it’s great that Oracle is looking to have all of it’s products be able to integrate with each other.  However, I find Oracle’s push to get organizations to use them for everything a little too much like Microsoft.

At my current employer, we are have started to use Oracle products for more and more things:

• Current platform for our Business Intelligence database
• Possible future use of Oracle Application Server for EnterpriseOne
• Starting a multi-million dollar project to install Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing (formerly SPL Customer Care & Billing)

I’m thinking, as time goes on, this list could get a lot longer.

I also think that I am starting to have some serious inner struggles:

• Oracle Linux vs. Microsoft Windows vs. IBM OS/400
• MS SQL Server vs. Oracle Database vs. IBM DB2
• MS .Net vs. PHP – for personal projects
• MS SQL Server vs. MySQL – for personal projects

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