A typical Oracle configuration in a VCS cluster has the following characteristics:
The Oracle binaries are installed locally on both nodes or on shared disks.
Review the typical cluster setup illustration for ASM-managed database.
See Figure: Oracle binaries on local disk and Oracle data on shared disk.
The Veritas Cluster Server agent for Oracle is installed on both nodes.
For ASM, ASMInst and ASMDG agents are installed on both nodes.
Figure: Oracle binaries and data on shared disks depicts a configuration where Oracle binaries and data are installed completely on shared disks.
Figure: Oracle binaries on local disk and Oracle data on shared disk depicts a configuration where Oracle binaries are installed locally on each node and Oracle data is installed on shared disks.