Oracle RAC Technologies Matrix for Linux Clusters

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RAC Technologies Matrix for Linux Platforms Oracle will support the Oracle software on clusters comprised of RAC compatible technologies and supported software combinations Please consult your hardware and software vendors as not all vendors may choose to support their hardware or software in every possible cluster combination For RAC database and server virtualization (Oracle VM, LPAR, vPAR, LDOM, etc.) support see here. For RAC database and SAP certification information see SAP support note 527843. To use Oracle Clusterware, even in a non-RAC environment, the RAC hardware and software requirements must be met (unless otherwise stated.) Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) is supported. Unified fabric (shared storage, private, and public networks) is supported with Cisco switches. See MetaLink Note 948372.1. Hitachi Compute Blade (also known as BladeSymphony) and Hitachi Virtualization Manager (HVM, also known as Virtage) are supported with Oracle RAC 10.2.0.5 and 11.2.0.2 or higher with OEL and RHEL 5.x (5.4 or higher) NOTE: The information in the following matrix applies to all Linux platforms unless otherwise stated in the platform specific section. Technology Category Ethernet 100 Mbps or 1 Gigabit NIC's and Switches 10 Gigabit (see notes) Technology Notes 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution is supported generically. Cisco 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution is supported Cross over cables are not supported Use correct type of cable (Cat 5, 5e, or 6) Network Interconnect Technologies InfiniBand (IB) RDS over IB is supported IP over IB is supported Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) is supported with QLogic (SilverStorm) switches on x86 and x86-64 with Oracle 10.2.0.3 Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.3.1 and higher (RDS v2 and higher) is supported with Oracle 11.1 and higher with Oracle/Sun, HP, QLogic and Voltaire switches Switch required for greater than two nodes (if the storage system does not have enough FC port for the cluster nodes) Cisco FCoE solution is supported HP FCoE solution is supportd. See metalink note 1405274.1 for details. Support for two nodes only Support up to 30 nodes. Private GigE storage network is required. The iSCSI accessed storage must be supported by the system and storage vendors. Following NFS storage vendors are supported: EMC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NetApp, Pillar Data, Sun, Hitachi. NFS File Server NFS file servers do not require RAC certification. The NFS file server must be supported by the system and storage vendors.

Fibre Channel (FC)

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) SCSI Storage Technologies All storage products must be supported by the iSCSI server (host) and storage vendors

See the Linux support of Oracle Cluster File System version 2 at the Oracle Linux Project web site OCFS2 is not certified with Standard Edition RAC OCFS 2 OCFS2 version 1.2 and 1.4 can be used for Oracle RAC 9i, 10gR1, 10gR2, and 11gR1 on the respective OS versions. OCFS2 version 1.4.1 and higher can be used to store Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and higher database files, database software and Oracle Clusterware files. See the Linux support of Oracle Cluster File System at the Oracle Linux Project web site OCFS is not certified with Standard Edition RAC GFS 6.x PolySeve Matrix Server CFS 3.x For Oracle 9.2 to 10.2. See MetaLink Note 329530.1 For Oracle 10.1 and 10.2. Only certified with IBM xSeries and HP Proliant Servers

Cluster File System/Volume Manager

OCFS

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