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

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