Re: ASM is single point of failure ?

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 15:26:37 -0400
Message-Id: <1147029997l.2777l.0l@medo.noip.com>

On 05/07/2006 02:53:16 PM, Ranko Mosic wrote:
> Hi List,
> Just thinking aloud - when ASM crashes then all instances connected to it
> crash too.
> This can't be good, right ?

Well, it would have been a single point of failure if Oracle wasn't unbreakable. ASM is, of course, bug free, so it will never crash. What is even more important, it makes it possible to forgo buying the expensive clustering software from SUN, HP or IBM and save some money, while providing an illusion of high availability.

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