Supported Storage Options for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

The following table shows the storage options supported for Oracle Grid Infrastructure binaries and files:

Table 7-1 Supported Storage Options for Oracle Grid Infrastructure

Storage Option	OCR and Voting Files	Oracle Clusterware Binaries	Oracle RAC Database Binaries	Oracle RAC Database Data Files	Oracle RAC Database Recovery Files
Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) Note: Loopback devices are not supported for use with Oracle ASM	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS)	No	No	Yes for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) and for Hub Nodes for Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) and later. No for running Oracle Database on Leaf Nodes.	Yes for Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) and later	Yes for Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1) and later
Local file system	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
OCFS2	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Network file system (NFS) on a certified network-attached storage (NAS) filer Note: Direct NFS Client does not support Oracle Clusterware files	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Direct-attached storage (DAS)	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Shared disk partitions (block devices or raw devices)	No	No	No	No	No

Guidelines for Storage Options

Use the following guidelines when choosing storage options:

• You can choose any combination of the supported storage options for each file type provided that you satisfy all requirements listed for the chosen storage options.

• You can only use Oracle ASM to store Oracle Clusterware files.

• Direct use of raw or block devices is not supported. You can only use raw or block devices under Oracle ASM.