Configuring Fiber Channel-Based Storage for Audit Vault Server

Learn about configuring fiber channel-based storage for Audit Vault Server.

Audit Vault Server supports fiber channel-based storage. You can configure this storage during installation by performing this procedure.

To configure fiber channel-based storage for Audit Vault Server:

1. Install Audit Vault Server on the local disk of your server. During installation, Audit Vault Server attempts to use all of the disks in your system. Use the configuration tools for the fiber channel controller such as Fast!UTIL, to ensure that other disks are not accessible.

   Note:

   • If the other disks are accessible, then they are formatted and erased during installation.

   • Audit Vault Server looks for the devices with the names of sd, xvd, hd, cciss, fio* in /sys/block. The installation succeeds if the fiber channel disks are exposed as one of these block devices.

   • The device xvd* is not supported for multipath.

   • The first disk must be a local disk with a minimum of 300 GB available space. If the available space is less than 300 GB, then the boot partition is allocated to a SAN fiber channel disk which is not supported. It is recommended that the sizes of the other disks be greater than that of the first disk.

2. If you are using fiber channel-based storage, then perform the following remaining steps after your installation has successfully completed to ensure that Oracle Automatic Storage Management uses the active path. Otherwise, reboot your system to complete the configuration process.