Requirements When Configuring NAS Devices for Use With Oracle Real Application Clusters

When setting up your NAS device:

• Create a volume on each Network Appliance NAS device for storing Oracle database files, namely:

  • Data files

  • Control files

  • Online redo log files

  • Archived redo log files

• Create a quota tree (qtree) for the each directory in the following list:

  • The directory that contains Oracle data files for the cluster

  • The Oracle home directory that is to be mounted on each node

• On each Network Appliance NAS device, add an entry to the /etc/exports file for the root of the volume that you created for storing Oracle database files.

• Ensure that the volume is exported without the nosuid option.

• When adding the NAS directories to the cluster, ensure that the following mount options are set:

  • forcedirectio

  • noac

  • proto=tcp