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

• Forwarded message --------- From: <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018, 20:19 Subject: Re: Oracle 18c grid infrastructure installation using dNFS as shared storage?? To: Tanel Poder <tanel_at_tanelpoder.com>

I did. Read into the typo the degree to which I think this a good idea!

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, 20:07 Tanel Poder <tanel_at_tanelpoder.com wrote:

> 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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