RAC Technologies Matrix for UNIX Platforms
| Technology Category | Technology | Notes |
| Network Interconnect Technologies | Ethernet
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InfiniBand (IB)
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IBM POWER systems with AIX 5.3 TL 8, with Service Pack 4 or later. A minimum of Oracle RAC 11.1.0.6 is required |
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Storage Technologies
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Fiber Channel | Switch required for greater than two nodes (if the storage system does not have enough FC port for the cluster nodes) |
| SCSI |
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| NFS File Server | Following NFS file servers are
supported
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Platform Specific Information
| Platform | Technology Category | Technology | Notes |
| HP-UX Itanium | Server/Processor Architecture | HP-UX Integrity Servers | Static nPars and static vPars are supported. Dynamic vPars are supported on 11iV3 and 11iV2 with 10gR2, minimum requirements: 10.2.0.3 for Oracle Clusterware (full Oracle stack) and 10.2.0.4 for Service Guard SLVM and Storage Management Suite |
| Cluster File System/Volume Manager | Serviceguard Storage Management Suite | See Certify for detailed support information | |
| VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC | See Certify for detailed support information | ||
| HP-UX PA-RISC | Server/Processor Architecture | HP 9000 Servers | Static nPars and static vPars are supported. Dynamic vPars are supported on 11iV3 and 11iV2 with 10gR2, minimum requirements: 10.2.0.3 for Oracle Clusterware (full Oracle stack) and 10.2.0.4 for Service Guard SLVM and Storage Management Suite |
| Cluster File System/Volume Manager | Serviceguard Storage Management Suite | See Certify for detailed support information | |
| VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC | See Certify for detailed support information | ||
| HP Tru64 | Network Interconnect Technologies | Memory Channel Hub | More than 2 nodes requires Memory Channel Hub |
| Platform | Technology Category | Technology | Notes |
| IBM AIX | Server/Processor Architecture | IBM System p, i, BladeCenter JS20, JS21 |
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| Cluster File System/Volume Manager | |||
| GPFS 2.1, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2 | See Certify for detailed support information. Also see metalink note 302806.1 | ||
| VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC | See Certify for detailed support information |
| Platform | Technology Category | Technology | Notes |
| Sun Solaris SPARC | Server/Processor Architecture | Sun High End Servers |
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| Network Interconnect Technologies | RSM/SCI | Support on Sun Cluster 3.0, 3.1 for Oracle 9.2.0.3, 10.1 | |
| Cluster File System/Volume Manager | Sun Cluster GFS |
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| Sun Cluster StorEdge QFS |
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| Sun Cluster Solaris Volume Manager |
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| VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC | See Certify for detailed support information | ||
| VERITAS DEB/AC 3.5, 4.0 | Support up to 8 nodes with raw devices | ||
| Sun Solaris x86-64 | Cluster File System/Volume Manager | Sun Cluster GFS |
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| Sun Cluster StorEdge QFS |
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| Sun Cluster Solaris Volume Manager |
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| VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC | See Certify for detailed support information |