Oliver, The rational behind going RAC is HA/MAA/Scalability. So, if you are looking to have only Single Node, why spending extra license fee for RAC. You can always migrate to RAC. Any single instance cons and pros can be the same for this. To migrate to RAC, anyway you need to setup the shared storage. And that requires downtime. Pros are cost saving, and others for a single instance. Hope this helps. Thank You, Sam Chakkanat America's C-Bench http://www.cbenchusa.com ---- Oliver Jost <Oliver.Jost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > I have a question that may be a touch backwards. My option is to > create a standalone instance on 10G or single-node RAC 10G. Aside from > support, does anyone have any pros and cons to potential approach. If > we move to a standalone instance we can stablize our application and > upgrade to RAC. If we go with RAC I can just add a node when it > presents itself. I know the RAC pack suggests a standalone instance > rather than a single node RAC and I'm inclined that way myself. Could > anyone add their insight/experience? > > Thank you, > Oliver > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l