ASM and Databases Instances (best practices)

Hello
Platform AIX 5 TL8,
Oracle 10.2.0.4
Context RAC ASM (2 nodes)
We have 25 Oracle databases working under the same ASM Instance on our RAC. I think that this is too much and split at least by creating a new ASM instance on another RAC environment should be better.
Any comment, advises ?
Bests Regards
Den

user12067184 wrote:
Hello
Platform AIX 5 TL8,
Oracle 10.2.0.4
Context RAC ASM (2 nodes)
We have 25 Oracle databases working under the same ASM Instance on our RAC. I think that this is too much and split at least by creating a new ASM instance on another RAC environment should be better.
Hi Den ,
It is not advisable to have 25 databases in single RAC . Instead of databases , you can also think of creating different schemas in same database.
For ASM best practice please follow :
ASM Technical Best Practices [ID 265633.1]
Regards
Rajesh

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