Depends on if you want the "high availability" of a cluster in your disaster environment if/when you fail/switchover. I believe that standby databases only run in one instance if there is a cluster, so the question really does come down to what the business requirements are when the standby becomes the primary. On Dec 17, 2007 11:24 AM, Crisler, Jon <Jon.Crisler@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I am planning for a 2 node 10g RAC cluster on Linux / ASM which will > have a remote node for DG physical. The remote node may have other > instances on it as well. > > The question is, should be remote node be configured as a single node > RAC cluster, or should it be a regular (non-RAC) configuration? > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Charles Schultz