Starting 12c,
Oracle has introduced two very interesting features to add up to MAA (Maximum
Availability Architecture), Oracle Flex Cluster and Oracle Flex ASM. In this
article I will be explaining and demonstrating about Oracle flex ASM.
In flex ASM, you
don’t need ASM instance to be running on each node (the Hub Node) because database instance can
communicate with some other ASM instance running on any other node in the
cluster.