Just following up on this. I ran my 16g laptop out of memory today adding a third node to my 2 node 12c RAC cluster (as Mark describes these really ought to be 4gb ram VMs. :) On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Larry Elkins <elkinsl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks to all who have replied. It sounds like 16gb would be enough for > many cases, but I could find myself really wanting 32gb at > times. So I'll probably go the 32gb support route. >