Components of an OPS Database
On every instance of an Oracle 8i Parallel Server database, the following components can be found:
Cluster manager, which is OS vendor specific (except Windows), including a node-monitoring facility and failure detection mechanism
Distributed lock manager (DLM), including deadlock detection and resource mastering
Cluster interconnect
Shared disk array
NOTE
Vendor-specific cluster manager software is not discussed here ...
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