Hi Chris, Chris Dunscombe schrieb: > On the DR site we only have 3 nodes, we'd like 6 but 3 is all that we're going > to get. > > The question is should we configure DR to have 1 instance per node (same as > production) but this leaves only a total of 3 instances and hence 3 redundant > UNDO tablespaces etc or have 2 instances per node? > > Also is it best practice to have the instance names on DR the same as in > production. > > Any experiences, advice, "best practice" etc. for this is most welcome. > please keep in mind, that the standby database will only use one instance for recovery, so you can use the power of the RAC on standby side after a switchover only. In usual cases this should not be a problem, physical standby recovery is rather cheap. You don't need to count instances the way you explained - a RAC recovery works very good on a single-instance standby system as well. Given, it has enough power, of course. Since the physical standby database is only in MOUNT state, the undo tablespace usage does not count. I assumed physical standby database as desired by you, should you prefer logical stb, things are changing greatly: But in this case, I won't use more instances per node than the production has. Regards Martin Klier -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l