On 9/29/06, Matthew Zito <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
See, we're seeing a move away from shared Oracle homes. In fact, the last 5-10 large organizations we were talking to deployed one ORACLE_HOME for every instance on the box (and most of them deployed a separate ORACLE_HOME for their listener as well). Even in RAC environments, people want the lack of SPOF by having independent O_H. Given that we do provisioning and patch automation, it makes sense that those environments are better for us. Since you do a clustered filesystem, shared OHOME is better for you.
The largest multi homed server here has 8 databases currently, each with their own OH. Way too much trouble otherwise.
In fact, there are 10 OH on that box - one is Oracle Names only, the other is for the listener and DBA utility stuff.
-- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
