Re: Using RAC for 25+ small to medium sized database


<englishguy2006@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> My company is considering moving some development databases to a new
> hardware platform. There are two proposals under consideration:
>
> a) 5 blade servers, using VMware to create 25 virtual servers with each
> virtual servers running a single instance of Oracle 10g on each.
> b) 5 blade servers with each running 25 instances of a database using
> RAC.
>
> I'd like to find out if anyone has any comments as to which would be
> the most efficient and what they would recommend.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Paul
>
B. Why have the overhead of all those virtual servers? (not against VMware
in general)
Jim


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