Re: 10g RAC without vendor clusterware

Hi Koen,

See below...

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 12:09:45 +0100, Koen Van Langenhove <Koen.Van_Langenhove_at_siemens.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> looks like you're a little pessimistic about the ASM instance. Would
> you care telling us why ? It's just another instance, why would be it be
> less reliable than the 'real' instances ?
Exactly. It's probably not less reliable but I don't see why it would be MORE reliable and that what I would demand. My perception is that clusterware is normally more reliable than Oracle database.

> BTW it's certainly not the definitive test, but I just killed the ASM
> instance of the second node, and CRS managed to restart ASM and the
>other instances nicely.

The key word is RESTARTED.
Imagine that you need to install a new patchset for your ASM instance or one-off patch. All you DBs will have to be down during that time. we can't afford it.

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