Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 7.4.1 Administrator's Guide - Linux
- Section I. SF Oracle RAC concepts and administration
- Overview of Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
- About Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
- Component products and processes of SF Oracle RAC
- About Virtual Business Services
- Administering SF Oracle RAC and its components
- Administering SF Oracle RAC
- Starting or stopping SF Oracle RAC on each node
- Administering VCS
- Administering I/O fencing
- About the vxfentsthdw utility
- Testing the coordinator disk group using the -c option of vxfentsthdw
- About the vxfenadm utility
- About the vxfenclearpre utility
- About the vxfenswap utility
- Administering the CP server
- Administering CFS
- Administering CVM
- Changing the CVM master manually
- Administering Flexible Storage Sharing
- Backing up and restoring disk group configuration data
- Administering SF Oracle RAC global clusters
- Administering SF Oracle RAC
- Overview of Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
- Section II. Performance and troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC
- About troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC
- Troubleshooting I/O fencing
- Fencing startup reports preexisting split-brain
- Troubleshooting CP server
- Troubleshooting server-based fencing on the SF Oracle RAC cluster nodes
- Issues during online migration of coordination points
- Troubleshooting Cluster Volume Manager in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Troubleshooting CFS
- Troubleshooting interconnects
- Troubleshooting Oracle
- Troubleshooting ODM in SF Oracle RAC clusters
- Prevention and recovery strategies
- Tunable parameters
- Troubleshooting SF Oracle RAC
- Section III. Reference
Cluster File System (CFS)
CFS enables you to simultaneously mount the same file system on multiple nodes and is an extension of the industry-standard Veritas File System. Unlike other file systems which send data through another node to the storage, CFS is a true SAN file system. All data traffic takes place over the storage area network (SAN), and only the metadata traverses the cluster interconnect.
In addition to using the SAN fabric for reading and writing data, CFS offers Storage Checkpoint and rollback for backup and recovery.
Access to cluster storage in typical SF Oracle RAC configurations use CFS. Raw access to CVM volumes is also possible but not part of a common configuration.
For detailed information, see the Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Administrator's documentation.