Re: asm on serveral nodes (no RAC)

That's interesting - I'm curious to hear how this turns out. Do anyone know if Oracle presently has an official position on licensing for clustered ASM? On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Alex Gorbachev <ag_at_oracloid.com> wrote:

> I've just had an interesting follow up with one of the customers -- Oracle
> sales rep. was insisting that full RAC license is required to run two nodes
> CRS cluster with clustered ASM and single instance cold failover databases.
>
> We are assessing possibility to run ASM instance as failover as well. It
> shouldn't be much different that for simple single failover configuration.
> Let's see if customer is willing to compromise with the rather unusual setup
> and costs savings.
>
> On 31-Mar-08, at 10:44 PM, Dan Norris wrote:
>
> 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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