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Deploying Oracle Databases Using NFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

Sridhar Ranganathan and Jeffrey Wright, May 2009 (Updated May 12)

Introduction

This quick start guide shows how to deploy Oracle Database using the NFS protocol with the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System.

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System supports NFS v3, NFS v4, iSCSI, and CIFS protocols and comes with a comprehensive set of data service features that can provide unlimited snapshots, clones, and remote replication. The release used in this scenario was 2008.Q4.

For more details, see the list of contents below.

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See also Deploying Oracle Databases Using NFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (2009.Q3).

Contents

• 1.0 Introduction
• 2.0 Tested Configurations
• 3.0 Configuring Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• 3.1 Storage Configuration
• 3.2 Configuring Users and SSH Access
• 3.2.1 Configuring Roles and Users
• 3.2.2 Configuring Public SSH for Password-Less Logins
• 3.3 Creating a Project
• 3.4 Creating File Systems
• 4.0 Configuring Oracle Database Server - The Solaris Operating System
• 5.0 Configuring Oracle Database Server - Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• 6.0 Configuring the Oracle 11g Direct NFS Feature
• 6.1 Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
• 6.2 Database Server
• 7.0 Conclusion
• 8.0 Glossary

For More Information

Here are some additional resources:

• Oracle Technology Network
• Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System web site
• Sun BluePrints papers (registration required), such as Configuring Sun Storage 7000 Systems for Oracle Databases
• Sun download site
• Sun training courses at http://www.sun.com/training/, for example, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System Administration (NWS-6425)
• Sun forums such as:
  • Sun forums
  • BigAdmin Discussions collection
• Sun product documentation at http://docs.sun.com, such as:
  • Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System documentation
• Sun Documentation Center
• BigAdmin wiki:
• Storage Tech Tips page
• Databases page
• Resources on BigAdmin, such as:
  • Database resource collection (includes community content)
  • Storage resource collection (includes community content)
• Support:
  • Sun resources:
    • Register your Sun gear
    • Services
    • SunSolve Online
  • Community system administration experts
• Events of interest to users of Sun products:
  • Worldwide Developer Events and Sun Tech Days
  • Current Events

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