Re: Multiple hosts - shared SAN - ASM ?

Billy wrote:

> virutal memory. Shared pool. Shared i/o buffers. Etc. You do not scale
> by making things non-sharable.

Obviously, you have completely missed the latest IBM and Microslop benchmarks! :)

> THERE IS NO VALID TECHNICAL REASON FOR RUNNING MULTIPLE INSTANCES ON A
> SINGLE PLATFORM.
>
> The only exceptions to this is when dealing with very high-end servers
> where you do physical machine partitioning or when you have a R&D
> platform.

or if one has to upgrade a db and confidence on the new release is at an all time low...

But yes, in general I agree very much withthe capitalised statement. Received on Wed Jun 01 2005 - 20:33:51 CDT