Just a comment as far as I know ocfs2 is only for windows/Linux. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Norris [mailto:dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 01 April 2008 05:45 To: Alex Gorbachev Cc: Jeremy Schneider; mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx; Amihay Gonen; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: 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 > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l