RAC Technologies Matrix for Linux Platforms 

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
Cross over cables are not supported
InfiniBand (IB)
  • RDS over IB is supported 
  • IP over IB is supported
Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) is supported with QLogic (SilverStorm) switches on x86 and x86-64 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 QLogic and Voltaire switches

Storage Technologies
  • All storage products must be supported by the server (host) and storage vendors
Fiber Channel Switch required for greater than two nodes (if the storage system does not have enough FC port for the cluster nodes)
SCSI Support for two nodes only 
iSCSI Support up to 4 nodes 
NFS File Server Following NFS file servers are supported 
  • EMC Celerra
  • Fujitsu Filer NR1000 Series
  • HP Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway
  • IBM N Series
  • NetApp FAS, F, G Series
  • Pillar Data Systems Axiom 500
  • Sun StorageTek 5000 Series
Cluster File System/Volume Manager OCFS 2
  • For Oracle 9.2 to 10.2.  See the Linux support of Oracle Cluster File System version 2 at the Oracle Linux Project web site
  • OCFS2 is not certified with Standard Edition RAC
OCFS
  • For Oracle 9.2 to 10.1.  See the Linux support of Oracle Cluster File System at the Oracle Linux Project web site
  • OCFS is not certified with Standard Edition RAC
GFS 6.x For Oracle 9.2 to 10.2.  See MetaLink Note 329530.1
PolySeve Matrix Server CFS 3.x For Oracle 10.1 and 10.2.  Only certified with IBM xSeries and HP Proliant Servers
Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS) for Oracle RAC See Certify for detailed support information

 

Platform Specific Information

Platform Technology Category Technology Notes
Linux x86  Server/Processor Architecture 32-bit x86 Architecture
  • Pentium III or IV including Xeon-based systems
  • AMD x86 standard-based systems
Linux x86-64 (AMD64/EM64T)  Server/Processor Architecture 64-bit x86 Architecture
  • AMD64/EM64T standard-based systems
Linux Itanium (IA64)  Server/Processor Architecture 64-bit IA64 Architecture
  • IA64 standard-based systems

 

Platform Technology Category Technology Notes
IBM Power Linux Server/Processor Architecture IBM System p, i, BladeCenter JS20, JS21 Advanced Power Virtualization hardware LPAR's are supported including Dynamic LPAR (DLPAR) or shared pool with micro partitions
Network Interconnect Technologies Direct Ethernet in partitions between systems
Cluster File System/Volume Manager GPFS 2.3, 3.1  GPFS 3.1 is supported with:
- Oracle 10.2.0.3 and higher on Power Linux (SLES9)
IBM zSeries Linux Server/Processor Architecture IBM System z Certified and supported on certified distributions of Linux running natively in LPARS's or as a guest OS in z/VM virtual machines, deployed on IBM System z 64-bit servers
Network Interconnect Technologies
  • VLAN within one System z Ethernet over Gigabit OSA card for two System z
  • HyperSockets
IBM S/390 Linux Server/Processor Architecture Servers that support the certified Linux/390 releases Includes S/390 and zSeries
Network Interconnect Technologies HyperSockets