Re: asm on serveral nodes (no RAC)

Alex--good point. I am guilty of frequently ignoring licensing issues in technical discussions, but you're absolutely correct to bring it up. However, I don't know the answer in this case. I suspect that you would have to have a RAC license, but I'm only guessing.
I generally regard RAC to be limited to RDBMS, so even clustered ASM doesn't constitute "having RAC" in my book.
No matter what angle you take, I don't think I'd create a clustered ASM configuration to support multiple servers with single-instance databases. If I wanted to share a single storage area between multiple development servers running single-instance databases, I'd use a clustered filesystem. The licensing for OCFS2 is pretty cut-and-dried :). I think that's what I said before (just realized it though, so it's nice that I came to the same conclusion twice in a row). 

Dan

Alex Gorbachev wrote:

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


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