Re: 5 instances = too much ???

I understand. But when the server goes down. All five instances go down. Which can put a company, or a department, out of business for hours or days.

If your company grosses $40 million per year you lose the cost of a $100,000 server every 24 hours you are out of business. I doubt there are too many companies using Oracle on $100,000 servers that don't make that much money annually. Tell your CFO to do the math.

Daniel A. Morgan

Joe Kazimierczyk wrote:

> It's impossible to give a rule of thumb on this. It all
> depends on the resources consumed by your instances vs what
> your hardware can handle. 5 instances with 2Gb memory
> sounds reasonable if your instances are not big hitters (I
> don't know what 'rational' is - sorry).
>
> > I've never had a machine with more than 3 instances. Now we're thinking
> > of going from 3 - 5 instances on a machine that has 2Gig memory. None of
> > the databases are too big- mostly support for apps like rational.
> >
> > So- when do you hit the limit for instances ? Is there a rule of thumb ?
> >
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