Before I asked for clarification, I was thinking pretty much the same thing David said... Stop whining and get to work!
But, seriously aside from the fact that there is the possibility for consolidation (you have to fight that fight, we can't help you there)... I would strongly suggest you read and consider implementing the XIP filesystem for Oracle as described in the redbook. With 50 Oracle instances the potential for virtual storage savings is pretty grand. Tom Duerbusch wrote:
Right now, we would mean 50 virtual machines (each perhaps 2 GB memory) with the usage still wouldn't swamp a single IFL. And, these are coded queries. No dynamic "queries from hell". We just "can't" have that many users. Currently we have 204 PC type database servers and we only have a few thousand PCs. I figure it comes down to 20-30 possible users per database with the very fast majority of them, occasional users. So, I have been planning for about 5-7 production servers such as: 1. First shift server (most City functions end at 5 PM) 2. 6 AM to midnight server 3. Near high availability 4. Convention Center (their usage and uptime requirements based on the current conventions) 5. Courts system perhaps a couple other "weird" ones Plus their test systems, development systems. Right now, the only reasons I can think of, for having dedicated servers are: 1. Very high utilization along with performance requirements 2. Political 3. Some idiot designed things that every user needs DBA authority, hence would have access to all other applications tables. In large mainframe shops (not that we are one of them), I've only seen a few database servers running to support all their applications (outside of the PC servers). Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting
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