On 9/29/06, Matthew Zito <mzito_at_gridapp.com> wrote:
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>
> See, we're seeing a move away from shared Oracle homes. In fact, the
> last 5-10 large organizations we were talking to deployed one
> ORACLE_HOME for every instance on the box (and most of them deployed a
> separate ORACLE_HOME for their listener as well). Even in RAC
> environments, people want the lack of SPOF by having independent O_H.
> Given that we do provisioning and patch automation, it makes sense that
> those environments are better for us. Since you do a clustered
> filesystem, shared OHOME is better for you.
>
>
The largest multi homed server here has 8 databases currently, each with
their own OH. Way too much trouble otherwise.
In fact, there are 10 OH on that box - one is Oracle Names only, the other
is for the listener and DBA utility stuff.
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Jared Still
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Received on Fri Sep 29 2006 - 14:28:27 CDT
