Re: Running 8 instances of oracle on a sparc 20 - Need Advice

In article <4nb2du$6p9_at_earth.njcc.com>, mel_at_pluto.njcc.com says...
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>I'm looking for recommendations.
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>In our development environment we need to keep a number of oracle databases
>running for testing purposes.
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>We have the following machine running 4 instances of Oracle (small):
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> Sparc 20
> 128 Meg
> 1 CPU
> A 1.05 Gig disk with the operating system on it
> A 1 2.1 Gig disk with oracle files on it
> A 1.05 Gig disk with oracle files on it
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>We need to run 4 MORE instances, and I'm trying to determine which would
>be better/cheaper in hardware as well as man hours to set up. Does anyone
>out there run 8 instances of oracle on a single machine?
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>The choice is:
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> 1. Upgrade our current machine
> more disks
> another cpu
> more memory
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> 2. Another sparc 20
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>Are there any reasons to pick one option over the other?
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Any reason you are not using schemas within the instances?

This would potentially reduce the memory requirements. Received on Wed May 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST