RE: asm on serveral nodes (no RAC)

Just a comment as far as I know ocfs2 is only for windows/Linux.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Norris [mailto:dannorris_at_dannorris.com] Sent: 01 April 2008 05:45
To: Alex Gorbachev
Cc: Jeremy Schneider; mzito_at_gridapp.com; Amihay Gonen; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
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
>

--
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l