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

■ Support for file system-based management. SF Oracle RAC provides a generic

clustered file system technology for storing and managing Oracle data files

as well as other application data.

■ Support for high-availability of cluster interconnects.

For Oracle RAC 10g Release 2:

The combination of LMX/LLT protocols and the PrivNIC/MultiPrivNIC agents

provides maximum bandwidth as well as high availability of the cluster

interconnects, including switch redundancy.

For Oracle RAC 11g Release 1/Oracle RAC 11g Release 2:

The PrivNIC/MultiPrivNIC agents provide maximum bandwidth as well as high

availability of the cluster interconnects, including switch redundancy.

■ Use of clustered file system and volume management technologies for

placement of Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) and voting disks. These technologies

provide robust shared block and raw interfaces for placement of OCR and

voting disks. In the absence of SF Oracle RAC, separate LUNs need to be

configured for OCR and voting disks.

■ Support for a standardized approach toward application and database

management. A single-vendor solution for the complete SF Oracle RAC software

stack lets you devise a standardized approach toward application and database

management. Further, administrators can apply existing expertise of Veritas

technologies toward SF Oracle RAC.

■ Increased availability and performance using dynamic multi-pathing (DMP).

DMP provides wide storage array support for protection from failures and

performance bottlenecks in the HBAs, SAN switches, and storage arrays.

■ Easy administration and monitoring of SF Oracle RAC clusters from a single

web console.

■ Support for many types of applications and databases.

■ Improved file system access times using Oracle Disk Manager (ODM).

■ Ability to configure ASM disk groups over CVM volumes to take advantage of

dynamic multi-pathing (DMP).

■ Enhanced scalability and availability with access to multiple Oracle RAC

instances per database in a cluster.

■ Support for backup and recovery solutions using volume-level and file

system-level snapshot technologies. SF Oracle RAC enables full volume-level

snapshots for off-host processing and file system-level snapshots for efficient

backup and rollback.

■ Ability to failover applications without downtime using clustered file system

technology.

Overview of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC

About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC