Third-Party Cluster Management Support

As an alternative to regular raw devices or the new Automatic Storage Management feature, Oracle 10g also supports third-party cluster file–management software in a RAC environment. Third-party cluster-file management, referred to as “Cluster File System” (CFS), provides a shared environment where node members within a predefined cluster can access the same files. Third-party CFS not only supports the Oracle-specific files that are supported on ASM, but also supports the file types that are not supported by ASM, such as ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_BASE files, CRS voting and OCR files, and any other relevant files needed to support your application.

Currently with Oracle 10g, only certified third-party cluster-management ...

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