Re: Would you recommend having multiple instances on the same box?

We have up to 7-10 databases running on a single box and they're all 'production'.

The only way I would see this as 'not recommended', since each database has an overhead--memory, cpu, disk space, dba time, backups, etc, etc.

The benefit of having separate instances is if one app goes bad, it could be isolated to a single db.

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:14:19 +0100, "John Guthrie" <john_at_guthrie.co.za> 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.)
>
>

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