Well oracle are going to push their own products, you dont have to unless you are SE where ASM is mandatory I believe. Different people seem to have different opinions about ASM On 1/18/06, Antonio Belloni <toni_belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > We are plannig to install RAC and I read several > papers in Metalink and OTN regarding the installation > process. Almost all the papers says to install and > configure ASM with RAC, but none of them says or > explain why ASM is required to use RAC. > > > > To me, seems that ASM is completely unnecessary. But I > wish to hear experiences from those who had > implemented RAC. Maybe there is some obscure feature > of RAC that works only over ASM. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Yahoo! doce lar. Faça do Yahoo! sua homepage. > http://br.yahoo.com/homepageset.html > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >