Re: cluster or database?

On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:42:52PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 14:32:37 -0500,
>   Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu> wrote:
> > Is there a drawback to have different clusters on the same
> > system/diskspace?   I have different applications I want to support
> > initially on the same server/disk array.  I was thinking it would be
> > better/easier to have seperate clusters per app for ease of migration
> > and security.  Is it highly superior just to use different dbs?  Why?
> > Where is this discussed?  Thanks.
>
> The downside to multiple clusters is that is harder to configure them
> to play nice with each other in the way of resource utilization because
> they don't communicate with each other.


Thank you for responding.  Do you have any documentation that would
support my efforts to understand some of the issues?