Re: asm on serveral nodes (no RAC)

Dan, Jeremy,

I think it depends on your definitions of "having RAC". For me running CRS and ASM in *clustered* mode does mean RAC.

"Having RAC" also might assume having to buy RAC license. Don't take my licensing knowledge for 100% but...
Recently, Oracle allowed using CRS for free to its customers with Linux support. Otherwise, you have to buy at least one RAC license. However, clustered ASM instances - do they require RAC license or not? I would think they do but its pure speculation.

Regards,
Alex

On 31-Mar-08, at 8:37 PM, Dan Norris wrote:

> Matt,
>
> Are you sure? I see no technical reason why this would be a problem
> with the following stipulations:
> 1. You can't have different OSes.
> 2. You must use Oracle Clusterware, have shared storage, and have
> clustered ASM.
>
> Given those two requirements, I think you could do this with
> multiple single-instance databases on different nodes. Those nodes
> would be clustered for purposes of sharing ASM disk groups.
>
> All that said, I haven't tried it, but I have thought about the
> feasibility several times and those that I've talked to about it
> didn't think it would be a technical issue. Now, why you'd do this
> when an OCFS2 filesystem achieves the same purpose with somewhat
> less complexity (IMO) is another discussion.
>
> Dan
>
> Matthew Zito wrote:
>>
>> No, it is not possible to do this without RAC.
>>
>> Matt
>>
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>> Subject: Q: asm on serveral nodes (no RAC)
>>
>> Hi all, I’m wandering is possible to have different computers using
>> the same disk groups in ASM without RAC? Even on different O/S ?
>>
>> The main idea is to define a share area for all the development
>> databases.
>>
>> Amihay Gonen
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