About Oracle Grid Infrastructure to Manage Generic Applications

An Oracle Grid Infrastructure deployment to manage generic applications can host any applications for which you want to enable dual instance management, failover, and high availability.

Oracle Grid Infrastructure deployment to manage generic applications enables you to make your applications highly available without requiring Virtual IP addresses and shared storage. This deployment model can also extend high availability and single server rolling patching capabilities to single-instance Oracle databases.

You can configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure to manage generic applications without SCAN, GNS, VIPs, and without using separate network interfaces for Oracle ASM, private, and public communication. Such clusters can manage single-instance Oracle databases, any generic applications, or third-party databases using only one network interface.

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You can easily convert this deployment model to an Oracle Grid Infrastructure cluster to manage Oracle RAC databases by adding shared storage and VIP.