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
  This section contains information about Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) and Oracle Automatic Storage Management Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM).
• 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
  During installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure, you can choose to configure Oracle ASM disk groups on NFS file systems on a supported Network Attached Storage (NAS) device.
• 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 12c Release 2 (12.2), you must use Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) to store voting files and OCR 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.