Oracle Hardware Assisted Resilient Data

Oracle Hardware Assisted Resilient Data (HARD) Initiative Members and Validated Products

Following is the list of storage vendors that have joined the Oracle Hardware Assisted Resilient Data (HARD) Initiative and products that have been validated by the Oracle HARD Test Kit.

Under the HARD Initiative, vendors are committed to run appropriate "Oracle HARD Test Kit" with their products to ensure product compatibility and provide first line technical support for the integrated storage solutions for Oracle RDBMS.

Members

EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, NEC, Network Appliance, Sun Microsystems

Validated Products  

The checks below are for writes of corrupted blocks.  This includes the checksum value as well as validation of selected fields in the block.  

Oracle Database 10g (HARD Test Kit Version 3.1)

Validation Description

NetApp Array

NEC iStorage Disk Array

Data file 7/7 checks 7/7 checks
Control file 7/7 checks 7/7 checks
Redo log 7/7 checks 7/7 checks
Archived log 7/7 checks 0/7 checks
RMAN backup piece 7/7 checks (6/6 for 10g Release 1) 0/7 checks
Data Guard broker configuration file 7/7 checks 0/7 checks
Flashback log 7/7 checks 0/7 checks
Change tracking file  7/7 checks 0/7 checks
Raw support Y Y
File system support Y N
ASM support Y N

 

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Oracle9i Database Release 2  (HARD Test Kit Version 2.1)

Validation Description

EMC Symmetrix  Fujitsu ETERNUS6000

Hitachi H12000/10000

HP XP12000/10000

NEC iStorage Disk Array

 NetApp Array

Sun StorEdge 9990/9985

Data file

5/5 checks

5/5 checks  5/5 checks  5/5 checks  5/5 checks  5/5 checks  5/5 checks 

Control file

5/5 checks

5/5 checks  5/5 checks  5/5 checks  5/5 checks  5/5 checks  5/5 checks 
Redo log 

4/4 checks

4/4 checks 4/4 checks 4/4 checks 4/4 checks 4/4 checks 4/4 checks

Check for writes of Oracle data that is not a multiple of Oracle blocksize for target device

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes  

Yes

Check for writes of data blocks to incorrect locations

Yes  

Yes

Yes Yes

Yes

Yes  

Yes

Oracle9i Database Release 1  (HARD Test Kit Version 2.1)

Validation Description

Hitachi SANRISE 9900V/Lightning 9900V (DB Validator)

HP Surestore xp1024

Sun StorEdge 9900

Data file

4/5 checks

4/5 checks 4/5 checks

Control file

4/5 checks

4/5 checks 4/5 checks

Check for writes of Oracle data that is not a multiple of Oracle blocksize for target device

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

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Oracle8i Database (HARD Test Kit Version 2.1)

Validation Description

Hitachi SANRISE 9900V/Lightning 9900V (DB Validator)

HP Surestore xp1024

Sun StorEdge 9900

Data file

4/5 checks

4/5 checks 4/5 checks

Control file

4/5 checks

4/5 checks 4/5 checks

Check for writes of Oracle data that is not a multiple of Oracle blocksize for target device

Yes

Yes

Yes

Oracle8i Database (HARD Test Kit Version 1)

Validation Description

EMC Symmetrix (Double Checksum)

Checks the checksum value of an Oracle data block on write

Yes

 

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