RE: ACFS licensing

Use of Oracle ADVM and Oracle ACFS's base functionality (i.e., excluding the

below-listed advanced functionality) is free for all data types, including

non-Oracle files. (below is advanced functionality)  

Use of Oracle ACFS's advanced functionality requires the Cloud File System

license. The advanced functionality consists of snapshots, replication, tagging,

realm-based security, encryption, and auditing  

So I would say that RMAN should be covered  

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From: Ls Cheng [mailto:exriscer_at_gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 7:06 AM
To: Pande, Rajendra
Cc: Freek D'Hooge; Oracle Mailinglist
Subject: Re: ACFS licensing  

Hi Rajendra

It seems to me that when standard edition is used ACFS cannot store RMAN backups, what do yu think?

Thanks  

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:32 PM, <rajendra.pande_at_ubs.com> wrote:

This may also be helpful… Confirms what was said earlier  

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e18951/asmfilesystem.htm#OSTMG31000  

Starting with Oracle Automatic Storage Management 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3), Oracle ACFS supports RMAN backups (BACKUPSET file type), archive logs (ARCHIVELOG file type), and Data Pump dumpsets (DUMPSET file type). Note that Oracle ACFS snapshots are not supported with these files.  

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Freek D'Hooge Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 11:45 AM To: exriscer_at_gmail.com
Cc: Oracle Mailinglist
Subject: Re: ACFS licensing  

The following is stated in the licensing guide: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/license.112/e47877/options.htm#DBLIC2157

Oracle Cloud File System
Oracle Cloud File System includes Oracle ASM Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) and Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM).

• Use of Oracle ADVM and Oracle ACFS's base functionality (i.e., excluding the below-listed advanced functionality) is free for all data types, including non-Oracle files.
• Use of Oracle ACFS's advanced functionality requires the Cloud File System license. The advanced functionality consists of snapshots, replication, tagging, realm-based security, encryption, and auditing.

Oracle will provide support for ACFS/ADVM only if the server is running an Oracle product, which may include Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris, that is also under Oracle support.

and the following is also stated in the RAC on standard edition section (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/license.112/e47877/editions.htm#DBLIC121)

"ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) or a local OS file system must be used to store all non-database files" .

so, I would say no

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On wo, 2014-04-23 at 15:21 +0200, Ls Cheng wrote:

Hi all

        Does anyone knw if we need CloudFS (ACFS) license to store RMAN backups in 11gR2 RAC Standard Edition? (Not Enterprise)                  

        Thanks

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