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What is Standard Edition Oracle RAC?

April 26, 2017edition Oracle RAC standard

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What is Standard Edition Oracle RAC?

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As of Oracle Database 10g, a customer who has purchased Standard Edition is allowed to use the Oracle RAC option within the limitations of Standard Edition(SE). For licensing restrictions you should read the Oracle Database License Doc. At a high level this means that you can have a max of 4 sockets in the cluster, you must use ASM for all database files. As of Oracle Database 11g Release 2, ASM includes ACFS (a cluster file system). ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) or a local OS file system must be used to store all non-database files including Oracle Home, Application and system files, and User files NOTE: 3rd party clusterware and clustered file systems(other than ASM) are not supported. This includes OCFS and OCFS2. Here is the text from the appropriate footnote in the Price List (as of Jan2010, please check price list for any changes): Oracle Database Standard Edition can only be licensed on servers that have a maximum capacity of 4 sockets. If licensing by Named User Plus, the mini