It is used in both clustered and non-clustered environments.

You can add and remove components from an Oracle Restart configuration with Server Control (SRVCTL) commands.

It runs from the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home.

If you shut down a database instance with SQL*Plus, Oracle Restart interprets this as a database failure and attempts to restart the instance.

The Server Control (SRVCTL) utility can be used to start and stop Oracle Restart.

It can manage Oracle Database instances, Oracle Net Listeners, and Oracle Automatic Storage Management instances.