I am about to build our first RAC development environment, and as I’m new to RAC and have not used ASM I wanted to keep things as simple as possible.
I was under the impression that ASM is a pre-requisite of RAC, but reading I’ve done recently implies it’s optional (although ASM offers better performance particularly on reads).
So is a non-ASM RAC environment supported by Oracle? We are using 11.2.0.4 on a RedHat Linux 6 environment.