So now that we have two Exadata machines and have gone through the process of migrating all our applications to Exadata was it worth it.
Notes:
Learning curve - this was significantly greater than expected. The solution keeps evolving and the rate of change is sometimes staggering.
Pros:
- Multi-tenant and RAC by default
- Speed - we had an enormous increase in performance (after tuning our queries for Exadata)
- It is great to have some of the hardware issues abstracted away from us.
- Oracles monitoring of the hardware on our system is great
Cons:
- Cost - the solution is more expensive than what we had but you get what you pay for
- Loss of control in some areas and then dealing with Oracle support.
- What happens after a refresh cycle.
All things considered it was a good move for us. Looking forward to our new move to Gen 2 and a true hybrid cloud experience.
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