Andrew: >... in my experience Oracle performance is much more dependent on user load than amount of data in the database. That being said, how busy are the CPU's in the servers you currently have, and what does the memory usage look like? If you have significant physical IO, you will have to worry about overloading your IO paths also. For sure, and we're using AWR to get a feel for those loads. AWR is telling us that our current plan for consolidation would see each single node server experience 50-90MB/s read+write (average, based on one week last month) and up to 14 CPU-days for that same week. Memory for SGA+PGA would be 12-43GB per server. Andy -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.