RAC for dev env

A decision has been made by upper management to use RAC for production environment and nonRAC for dev/test environments. I would prefer to have a parallel environment which is identical to prod. Is it possible to run a dev environment without having to worry about license. If license might be an issue for dev, can we have one environment where we just install RAC for practice before deploying it in production.

Any thoughts or guidances on the issue would be highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ram.

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