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

Van Messner wrote:

> I have never worked at a site that did not have multiple instances on the
> same box. The statement not to do that is so outlandish the person who made
> it probably meant something else. Maybe he meant to say you should usually
> not have development, test and production instances of the same database on
> the same box.
>
> "John Guthrie" <john_at_guthrie.co.za> wrote in message
> news:b7luoq$1uot5$1_at_ID-156817.news.dfncis.de...
> > 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.)
> >
> >

I have consulted at many locations where there was a rule against multiple production line-of-business instances on the same machine. Among them Boeing and AT&T. And I am using the strict Oracle definition of instance.

Daniel Morgan Received on Sat Apr 19 2003 - 20:05:15 CDT