Re: Oracle RAC 11.2.0.3 support on ZFS Storage Appliance
- From: Biju Thomas <biju.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 17:01:41 -0500
Just wanted to provide an update, after working with Oracle/SAP on this:
Oracle: Oracle in the process of working with the owner of the
certification matrix. Right now that there isn’t a note that certifies the
specific configuration, however the general consensus from Oracle is that
they support the solution.
SAP: We were hoping that the customer uses the Oracle Cluster Ware instead
of the SUN Cluster.
The SUN Cluster is very rarely used in the SAP RAC customer base. Therefore
we do not test this configuration anymore starting Oracle version 11.2.0.3.
That’s also the reason why we revoked this configuration from the list of
stacks in note 527843. However, a SUN Cluster based RAC stack still works
and is supported by Oracle. We therefore approve and support that the
customers uses this configuration for SAP system.
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Biju Thomas <biju.thomas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some more information (sorry, should have included earlier):
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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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