Storage Management Requirements for the Oracle Real Application Clusters Database

You must configure Oracle Real Application Clusters to use the shared-disk architecture of the Sun Cluster software. In this configuration, a single database is shared among multiple instances of the Oracle Real Application Clusters software that access the database concurrently. The UNIX Distributed Lock Manager (Oracle UDLM) controls access to shared resources between cluster nodes.

To satisfy these requirements, use one storage management scheme from the following list:

• Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster

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  Note –

  Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster is supported only with Oracle Real Application Clusters. Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster with Oracle Parallel Server is not supported.

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• VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) with the cluster feature

• Hardware redundant array of independent disks (RAID) support

• Sun StorEdge^TM QFS shared file system with hardware RAID support