Thursday, October 13, 2011

IS LVM (Logical Volume Manager) supported on windows 2008 and Linux 5.0 on 11gR2

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Problem: IS LVM (Logical Volume Manager) supported on windows 2008 and Linux 5.0 on 11gR2


Solution:
Supported storage options for RAC on Linux are:

Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM)
Network File System (NFS)

When using ASM, Although you can specify a logical volume as a device in an Oracle Automatic Storage Management disk group, Oracle does not recommend their use. Logical volume managers can hide the physical disk architecture, preventing Oracle Automatic Storage Management from optimizing I/O across the physical devices. They are not supported with Oracle RAC.
Please Refer:
Chapter 3 - Configuring Storage for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC)
Oracle® Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Linux
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10812/storage.htm#CDECEBGH




Chapter 3 - Configuring Storage for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle RAC
Oracle® Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Microsoft Windows
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10817/storage.htm#CDECEBGH

For Windows, the storage options available are:

Oracle ASM
OCFS for Windows

When using ASM, Although you can specify a logical volume as a device in an Oracle Automatic Storage Management disk group, Oracle does not recommend their use. Logical volume managers can hide the physical disk architecture, preventing Oracle Automatic Storage Management from optimizing I/O across the physical devices. They are not supported with Oracle RAC.

Please Refer:
Chapter 3 - Configuring Storage for Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster and Oracle RAC
Oracle® Grid Infrastructure Installation Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2) for Microsoft Windows
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10817/storage.htm#CDECEBGH

For Windows and Linux, In order for OCFS2 to work it requires a standard block device to be made available. Hence LVM is not supported.

Enterprise Linux Support team does not provide support for Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for clustered environments and support is provided for single node situations only.
Reference:
Note 423207.1 == > Enterprise Linux Support for GFS, LVM and LVM2

It is recommended to use ASM.



References:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10817/storage.htm#CDECEBGH
Note 423207.1 == > Enterprise Linux Support for GFS, LVM and LVM2
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10817/storage.htm#CDECEBGH
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e10812/storage.htm#CDECEBGH
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