RE: Multiple Instances and 9iRAC

RAC is a multiple instance one database configuration. Different instances on different nodes accessing a single database on shared disk.  

Can you have multiple RAC databases running in a cluster? Sure, if the machine has enough resources. That's about as close as we can say without testing it. I'd be surprised to see the interconnect flood because of three instances though.

Pete

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Todd
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:29 AM
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My company is currently considering using Oracle 9i RAC. One of the proposed environments is to have multiple oracle instances (3 or more) configured on a 4-8 node RAC cluster. Does anyone have any insights as to the viability of this implementation? Will the high speed inter connect be able to handle the traffic from multiple instances? I always thought of RAC as a single instance implementation with each instance needing its own cluster...........

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