Storage Management Requirements for the Oracle Real Application Clusters Database

You can use the following storage management schemes for the Oracle Real Application Clusters database:

• 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

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  Note –

  VxVM is supported only on the SPARC platform.

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• Hardware redundant array of independent disks (RAID) support

• Sun StorEdge QFS shared file system with hardware RAID support

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  Note –

  Sun StorEdge QFS shared file system is supported only on the SPARC platform.

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• Network Appliance network-attached storage (NAS) devices

• Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)