David & Sarah Grove wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Consider a single machine (Sun V480/Solaris 10) running Oracle 10g. Two
> parties are interested in cooperating (one brings the machine, the other
> brings the Oracle license). Disk space (>500 GB) is more than enough for
> both. Memory (16 GB) is more than enough for both. There are no common
> users. There are no common applications. There are no common schemas.
> There will be separate administration with possibly separate DBAs. Each
> party will have several schemas (total of 10 - 20 schemas). Three of one
> party's schemas each have in excess of 1000 tables and 1000 stored
> procedures.
>
> We are considering whether to just put both parties schemas together in a
> single instance, or, perhaps, make two instances.
>
> Might I be able to determine from vmstat whether there is sufficient
> "headroom" in cpu usage for a second instance? In other words, if I get one
> of the parties set up, can I use vmstat to determine whether, assuming
> everything else is adequate, there is enough horsepower to bring the second
> party in as a second instance?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> DG
Your issues are not the one's you mention. Your issues are legal and
based on issues such as laws such as SarbOx and HIPAA (if in US) and
liability if someone from one group inadvertently damages something
belonging to the other group. This all sounds like a really bad idea.
But not because of anything related to technology.
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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Mon Jun 13 2005 - 09:47:51 CDT
