Re: Oracle RAC 11.2.0.3 support on ZFS Storage Appliance

Support section excerpt from SAP Note:

RAC 11.2.0.3/4 (Solaris 10 and Solaris 11, hardware manufacturer-independent configuration)
- Oracle Clusterware 11.2.0.3/4 + ASM/ACFS 11.2.0.3/4 - Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 5.x / 6.x

RAC (9.2/10.2/11.2.0.2) on Sun hardware: - Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.x (x is 2 or higher) + Oracle Sun Unified Storage/Oracle Sun ZFS
Storage Appliance with Direct NFS or
- Sun Cluster 3.x (x is 2 or higher)+ Sun QFS 4.x (x is 5 or higher) or - Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 4.x / 5.x

My question really is to understand if Oracle supports RAC 11.2.0.3 on Oracle Sun Unified Storage/Oracle Sun ZFS Storage Appliance with Direct NFS. Is there an Oracle note saying YES or NO...

Thanks in advance.

On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Biju Thomas <biju.thomas_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, we are migrating a SAP database to Oracle 11g 11.2.0.3 two node
> RAC on Sun T5 servers with Solaris 11 LDOMs. We have been having some
> performance issues and have a SAP engineer engaged to review. The
> consultant threw a bomb today that the 11.2.0.3 (or 11.2.0.4) RAC with ZFS
> 3-2 Storage Appliance (utilizing DNFS) is non-supported configuration by
> Oracle and hence SAP also do not support this configuration. I have
> searched MOS and found nothing that definitively states one way or the
> other, but was frankly surprised that this might possibly be true. It may
> just indicate my search skills. SAP consultant says RAC 11.2.0.2 on ZFS is
> supported combination. The main reference for this is in SAP Support Note
> 527843, but reading this note did not give me a clear idea either.
>
> Are you using 11.2.0.3+ with ZFS Storage Appliance for Oracle RAC
> database? Why is this unsupported combination? Any help in guiding us in
> the right direction is much appreciated.
>
> Also, I am new to ZFS Storage Appliance, any guidance on configuration,
> warnings, pain points, best practices would be really useful.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Best,
> Biju Thomas
>
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