Storage Management Schemes for Oracle Files (Sun Cluster Data Service for Oracle RAC Guide for Solaris OS)

Sun Cluster Data Service for Oracle RAC Guide for Solaris OS

Storage Management Schemes for Oracle Files

Sun Cluster Support for Oracle RAC enables you to use the storage management schemes for Oracle files that are listed in the following table. The table summarizes the types of Oracle files that each storage management scheme can store. Ensure that you choose a combination of storage management schemes that can store all types of Oracle files.

The meaning of each symbol in the table is as follows:

+: Indicates that the storage management scheme can store the type of Oracle file.
-: Indicates that the storage management scheme cannot store the type of Oracle file.

Table 1–2 Storage Management Schemes for Oracle Files


Oracle File Type	Storage Management Scheme
Oracle File Type	Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster	VxVM	Hardware RAID	Sun QFS	qualified NAS Devices	ASM	Cluster File System	Local Disks
RDBMS binary files	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	+
CRS binary files	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	+
Configuration files	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	+
System parameter file (`SPFILE`)	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	-
Alert files	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	+
Trace files	-	-	-	+	+	-	+	+
Data files	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Control files	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Online redo log files	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Archived redo log files	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	-
Flashback log files	-	-	-	+	+	+	+	-
Recovery files	-	-	-	+	+	+	-	-
OCR files	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	-
CRS voting disk	+	+	+	+	+	-	+	-

Note –

Some types of files are not included in all releases of Oracle RAC. For information about which types of file are included in the release that you are using, see your Oracle documentation.