RE: What are the implications of having several instances on a se rver sharing the oracle home?

  • From: Stephen Evans <evans036@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:21:14 -0400

we consolidate oracle homes where possible. this is just to save on 
space/upgrade time etc.
we do this knowing that if need we can easily add a new home & move a sid 
to that

btw, i dont think binaries are even loaded many times, they stay resident 
for the most part

for us, mission critical apps always get their own box so sharing oracle 
homes for them is never an issue (ie i would not share oracle homes where 
up-time is important)

steve






"Mercadante, Thomas F" <thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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sharing the oracle home?


Ana,

There are at least two things to consider.

If all of your applications are home grown, then sharing one Oracle home 
is
appropriate.  The implication here is that when you choose to migrate to a
new version of the database software, that all of these database can go at
the same time.

If your application are store-bought, then you have another thing to worry
about.  Typically, store-bought applications will declare capatability 
with
the Oracle level at different times.  In this case, I would think you 
would
want different Oracle homes.

In all cases, I have never heard of (nor *every* worry about) binary
contention issues between databases.  This is a new one on me.  Sounds 
like
an old main-framer talking!! :)

Good Luck!

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional


-----Original Message-----
From: Ana Choto [mailto:achoto@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:13 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: What are the implications of having several instances on a server
sharing the oracle home?


My boss thinks that this could cause problems.  I say it's OK to have, say
three Oracle instances  (or more) sharing the binaries, as long as we have
enough memory and space.  He thinks we should install the software for 
each
instance to alleviate contention for the binaries.  Space is not an issue
for him.  The problem with this setting is that I will have to apply 
patches
to all of them.

I have on a server four databases, three of them share the binaries, they
are on 9iR2, and I also have a 10G instance on its own oracle home.  The 
9i
DBs are not heavily used so I can't tell if there is performance issues 
with
them.  I don't see a problem with the 10G db, although no one but me is
using it.

On another server I have three databases in their own oracle home.  Two
instances run on 8.1.7.4, one is the datawarehouse and the other one is
oltp.  No performance problems there.  Another oltp database (9iR2) 
resides
on the server, and I don't see any performance issues there either.

Is someone out there willing to share his/her experiences with any of 
these
settings?

Thanks

Ana E. Choto
American University
e-Operations - Information Technology
Phone (202) 885-2275
Fax      (202) 885-2224

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