Oracle/HP Best Practices Guide for HP IO Accelerators

Overview 6
For more information on using flash cache with Oracle databases, see "Using the IO Accelerator with
flash cache (on page 22)."
Setting up filesystems
Oracle can host its data files on any standard filesystem built on IO Accelerators. Typical configurations
include aggregating drives using RAID or LVM for performance or redundancy.
See the IO Accelerator User Guide for your operating system for additional recommendations for
filesystems, RAID setup, and filesystem tuning.
Using ASM
The IO Accelerator behaves just like any block device and can be managed with ASM in the same
manner as any other direct-attach storage. Benefits of ASM include enhanced manageability and the
leveraging of data replication features.
At this time, a known issue exists with configuring ASM with IO Accelerators. For details, see the Oracle
ASM Support page (http://kb.fusionio.com/KB/a56/oracle-asm-support.aspx?KBSearchID=4011).
For more information on using flash cache with Oracle databases, see the examples in the Hosting Logs
on the IO Accelerator section later in this document.