Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 for Oracle RAC Administrator"s Guide (5900-1512, April 2011)

Overview of Veritas Storage

Foundation for Oracle RAC

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC

■ How SF Oracle RAC works (high-level perspective)

■ Component products and processes of SF Oracle RAC

■ About preventing data corruption with I/O fencing

■ Periodic health evaluation of the clusters

About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC

Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle® RAC (SF Oracle RAC) leverages

proprietary storage management and high availability technologies to enable

robust, manageable, and scalable deployment of Oracle RAC on UNIX platforms.

The solution uses Veritas Cluster File System technology that provides the dual

advantage of easy file system management as well as the use of familiar operating

system tools and utilities in managing databases.

The solution stack comprises the Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Veritas Cluster

Volume Manager (CVM), Veritas Oracle Real Application Cluster Support

(VRTSdbac), Veritas Oracle Disk Manager (VRTSodm), Veritas Cluster File System

(CFS), and Veritas Storage Foundation, which includes the base Veritas Volume

Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS).

Benefits of SF Oracle RAC

SF Oracle RAC provides the following benefits:

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