Re: Oracle 18c grid infrastructure installation using dNFS as shared storage??

Niall, I think you meant having ASM disk groups stored on *NFS* here.

IIRC it's supported from 12.2 onwards and previously could be achieved by setting (in an unsupported way) by setting an undocumented parameter. It needed _asm_allow_only_raw_disks=false I think.

Tanel

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:23 PM <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> It is perfectly possible to create an ASM disk group on top of ASM. I
> consider this daft of course, but still.
>
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, 18:21 Rakesh Ra <rakeshra.tr_at_gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hmmm I just read the below where in it states ASM is mandatory to store
>> voting files and ocr... I think this will be challenge for companies who
>> rely on NFS highly..
>>
>> https://community.oracle.com/thread/4058349
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018, 23:11 Rakesh Ra <rakeshra.tr_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> 18c installation guides is not clear about whether we can install grid
>>> infrastructure on dNFS ?? Is that possible?? All I see in the guide is
>>> about ASM?? Is it mandatory to have ASM??
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rakesh RA
>>>
>>

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