Multiple DATABASES on the same RAC cluster

Hello everyone:

I got asked this question from a client the other day and I am having a hard time finding out a good answer to relay to them. They want to know wether or not they can implement two or more RAC clustered databases on the same hardware running at the same time. They would like to consolidate their databases onto one computer cluster and they have limitations by some of their software vendors which dictate the exact version and patch level they can run to be supported. Additionally they have in-house stuff that they might want to run on a newer version or with a more recent patch set. I have personally never tried this and am trying to put together some machines to try this - but I thought that maybee someout out there might have tried this already. They are planning on running on Redhat's 2.1AS Linux operating system on two to three dual 2.4ghz Xeon HP/Compaq machines. I am fairly sure that sharing the interconnect (which is really just a private network) would be ok - but I have no idea about the dependancies of the OSD stuff if they want to in fact run different versions of the database in RAC mode on the same hardware. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Mark J. Kounalis Received on Thu May 15 2003 - 18:35:08 CDT