7 Supported Storage Options for Oracle Database and Oracle Grid Infrastructure
Review supported storage options as part of your installation planning process.
- Supported Storage Options for Oracle Grid Infrastructure
The following table shows the storage options supported for Oracle Grid Infrastructure binaries and files: - Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) extends Oracle ASM technology to support of all of your application data in both single instance and cluster configurations. - Storage Considerations for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
For all installations, you must choose the storage option to use for Oracle Grid Infrastructure (Oracle Clusterware and Oracle ASM), and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) databases. - Guidelines for Using Oracle ASM Disk Groups for Storage
Plan how you want to configure Oracle ASM disk groups for deployment. - Guidelines for Configuring Oracle ASM Disk Groups on NFS
Configuration guidelines for Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) on NFS file systems. - Using Logical Volume Managers with Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC only support cluster-aware volume managers. - Using a Cluster File System for Oracle Clusterware Files
Starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c, you can use Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) or certified shared file system to store OCR files and voting files. - About NFS Storage for Data Files
Review this section for NFS storage configuration guidelines. - About Direct NFS Client Mounts to NFS Storage Devices
Direct NFS Client integrates the NFS client functionality directly in the Oracle software to optimize the I/O path between Oracle and the NFS server. This integration can provide significant performance improvements.