Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!drn.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-08!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: DA Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Oracle 9I RAC - Limit on databases Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:51:23 -0800 Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Message-ID: <1100238606.828936@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1417c32c.0411081402.3938a0b7@posting.google.com> <1099971284.569098@yasure> <1e8276d6.0411082330.2dc7b305@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <1e8276d6.0411082330.2dc7b305@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 39 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:229155 Dusan Bolek wrote: > DA Morgan wrote in message news:<1099971284.569098@yasure>... > >>Tom wrote: >> >> >>>I am trying to find out if there is a limit on the number of databases >>>in a 2 server RAC with a common SAN. For example could I have a SAP >>>database and a Peoplesoft database on the same RAC? >> >>RAC is about instances ... not databases. >> >>Ask yourself: How many instances can an end-user connect to at one time? >>Ask yourself: How many databases can an instance connect to at one time? > > > If I understand Tom correctly, ha asked how many two instance RAC > databases could be placed on the single two node cluster. The response > is: as many as you want (there is some limit but much higher than the > limit of a sensible setup). We're running two databases in this > configuration with no problem. > > -- > Dusan Bolek > http://www.db-support.com > > Email: spambin@seznam.cz > Pls add "Not Guilty" to the subject, otherwise your email will face an > unpleasant end as SPAM. The point I was trying to make was that databases have nothing to do with servers they have to do with disk storage. Unless you are using local storage you can't put any databases on a node: Only instances. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)