Storage Management Requirements for the Oracle RAC Database

You can use the following storage management schemes for the Oracle RAC database:

• Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster

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  Note –

  Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster is supported only with Oracle RAC. 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 or with Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster

• Network Appliance network-attached storage (NAS) devices

• Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)