Re: Using RAC for 25+ small to medium sized database

On 30 Jan 2006 19:25:38 -0800, englishguy2006_at_gmail.com wrote:

>The alternative would be to have 25 instances running on each server
>each with buffer cache, large pool, shared pool, java pool, redo
>buffers plus each of these instances would have up to 20 oracle
>processes and there would also be 25 different database caches talking
>to each other from one blade server to another. Finally there's
>additional licensing cost plus some possible changes when moving a
>non-RAC database to RAC, 5 sets of archive/redo logs, 5 alert log files
>/ database. I think that makes for a lot of overhead which is why I'm
>thinking the non RAC idea of the virtual servers would be the way to
>go. I should also mention that high availability is important but not
>critical for these databases.

Likely they just don't know how Oracle works, and they are mistaking schema for database.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA