On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Tim Hall <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I said, "Once you go HA, you have to pay.", once again suggesting that > RAC and DG are paid for options. > > In general I'd agree with that. However it seems pretty clear to me (not a licensing expert, haven't done this, YMMV etc etc) that HA can be provided by Oracle Clusterware for the Repository, since condition 2 below from the special use licensing guide applies. There are of course other active/passive solutions from other vendors. Oracle Clusterware > Oracle Clusterware can be installed and used to protect any Oracle or > third-party software provided any of the following conditions are met: > The software being protected is from Oracle. > The software being protected uses an Oracle Database. > The software being protected is running on Oracle Unbreakable Linux. > The software being protected is running in a cluster where at least one > machine involved in the cluster is licensed using the appropriate metric > for either Oracle Database Enterprise Edition or Oracle Database Standard > Edition. > A cluster is defined to include all the machines that share the same > Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and Voting Disk. If you tried the above with RAC One Node then I'd expect a tense discussion with the sales rep :(. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l