Re: Not to use SCAN in 11gR2 RAC

From: Raj <sanstorage_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:14:01 -0500
Message-ID: <5ecfd2cc0910162014x3143a03aj9c73825e171e64e6_at_mail.gmail.com>



SCAN is mandatory during install but can be disabled later. Not sure why that would affect anything else.

Raj
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Fuad Arshad <fuadar_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> the Hands on Labs in Openworld emphasized the fact that SCAN is in fact
> mandatory
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> Subject: Re: Not to use SCAN in 11gR2 RAC
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> > Oracle says SCAN is optional unless you use policy-managed database in
> 11gR2. But it actually becomes mandatory at the time of installation, and
> then it can be optional afterward. Isn't that awkward?
>
> I was in a presentation at OpenWorld about new RAC features in 11gR2,
> and the presenter (whose name I cannot recall) emphasized that SCAN is
> not optional, it is mandatory. The optional part is the GNS where RAC
> manages the server names for you and the DNS forwards the resolving to
> the GNS.
>
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