AFAIK, there is no "official" stance from Oracle regarding the number of
instances on a box. And rightly so - it depends on the instance's
memory footprint.
I current have 4 production machinces, each has between 4 and 6
instances. The machines aren't even breaking a sweat.
--
Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA
John Guthrie wrote:
> I know it is possible to have multiple instances running on the same box
> but:
>
> Can someone tell me if their is an official line that says Oracle does NOT
> recommend running multiple instances on the same box.
>
> AND
>
> Can someone tell me if running multiple instances on the same box is ever
> used in 'the real world'?
>
> The reason for the questions above is that we have made a request to run 2
> instances on the same box and this request was denied saying that Oracle do
> not recommend running more than 1 instance on the same box and that this is
> not done in 'the real world'. (the box which we will be using is more than
> capable of handling 2 instances - spec in this case is not the issue.)
>
>
Received on Thu Apr 17 2003 - 20:56:17 CDT
