Re: 10g RAC - Cluster Ready Services

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>>That means, without vendor clusterware just with CRS installed we work
>>with 10G RAC. Is vendor clusterware is really an option in 10g RAC?
>>Dont we have any other problems?
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>>Appreciate your valuable advices.
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Alexander Gorbachev wrote:

 > If you use CRS without third party clusterware than you won't have any
 > cluster filesystem or volume manager so you will have to go for ASM.
 > You will not be able to setup other clustered services as well. Oracle
 > is going to support it but they still not sure if it's coming with
 > 10gR2.
 >

CRS cannot use ASM. For the CRS cluster registry and voting disk, you need a shared raw disk, a shared logical volume (third-party), or a cluster file system like OCFS (Oracle Cluster File System) which is open source for Linux and also available for Windows.

-Mark Bole

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