When you configure your Network Appliance NAS device for use with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), you must meet the following requirements.
You must configure the Network Appliance NAS device with fencing support in order to guarantee data integrity.
You must 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
You must 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, you must add an entry to the /etc/exports file for the root of the volume that you created for storing Oracle database files.
You must ensure that the volume is exported without the nosuid option.
When adding the Network Appliance NAS directories to the cluster, ensure that the following mount options are set:
forcedirectio
noac
proto=tcp