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February 5th, 2014 07:00
Oracle-related questions for a refresh..
As I travel around meeting with customers and account teams, one of the questions I get (When attempting to crack an underpen account, where Oracle is currently on either Netapp, HDS, IBM, or HP ) is a list of questions to ask the customer (when Oracle is driving the sale)
I've compiled a non-comprehensive list here... And the order of the questions does change.. Would like to hear from you all what you ask the customer in the first meeting..
1. What versions & releases of Oracle do they have ?
2. How large are their databases and their Oracle environment ?
3. Do they use ASM ?
4. How do they enable high-availability and scalability for Oracle ? Do they have RAC, or are they evaluating RAC ? Or did they have RAC and move off ?
5. What is their DR strategy for Oracle
6. Do they run Oracle EBS, Peoplesoft or other Oracle applications
7. Do they virtualize Oracle ? (Using VMware or Oracle OVM ) ?
8. Which operating system do they primarily run Oracle on ? If OEL, do they use the UEK ?
9. How do they do snaps and clones ?
10. What is their backup strategy
Thanks