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 clustercombination

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 OracleRAC 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 Technology Notes

Network Interconnect Technologies

Ethernet

100 Mbps or 1 Gigabit NIC's and Switches

10 Gigabit (see notes)

10 Gigabit Ethernet solution is supportedgenerically. Cisco 10 Gigabit Ethernet solutionis supported

Cross over cables are not supported

Use correct type of cable (Cat 5, 5e, or 6)

InfiniBand (IB)

RDS over IB is supported

IP over IB is supported

Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) is supported

 

with QLogic (SilverStorm) switches on x86 andx86-64 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

Storage Technologies

All storage products must be supported by theserver (host) and storage vendors

Fibre Channel (FC)Switch required for greater than two nodes (if thestorage system does not have enough FC port forthe cluster nodes)

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

Cisco FCoE solution is supported

HP FCoE solution is supportd. See metalink note1405274.1 for details.

SCSI Support for two nodes only

iSCSI

Support up to 30 nodes. Private GigE storagenetwork is required.

The iSCSI accessed storage must be supportedby the system and storage vendors.

NFS File Server

Following NFS storage vendors are supported:EMC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NetApp, Pillar Data, Sun,Hitachi.

NFS file servers do not require RAC certification.

The NFS file server must be supported by the

system and storage vendors.

Cluster File System/Volume Manager

OCFS 2

See the Linux support of Oracle Cluster FileSystem version 2 at the Oracle Linux Projectweb site

OCFS2 is not certified with Standard EditionRAC

OCFS2 version 1.2 and 1.4 can be used forOracle RAC 9i, 10gR1, 10gR2, and 11gR1 onthe respective OS versions.

OCFS2 version 1.4.1 and higher can be usedto store Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and higherdatabase files, database software and OracleClusterware files.

OCFS

See the Linux support of Oracle Cluster FileSystem at the Oracle Linux Project web site

OCFS is not certified with Standard Edition RAC

GFS 6.xFor Oracle 9.2 to 10.2. See MetaLink Note329530.1

PolySeve Matrix Server CFS 3.xFor Oracle 10.1 and 10.2. Only certified with IBMxSeries and HP Proliant Servers

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