https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-Oracle-DNFS-supported-with-FlexGroups/m-p/155335#M34941 <P>Hey,</P> <P>I couldn't find information about this - can I use flexgroups to host oracle dnfs data?</P> <P>Is this supported by NetApp?</P> <P>Thanks,</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:14:20 GMT SuperTeam 2025-06-04T11:14:20Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-Oracle-DNFS-supported-with-FlexGroups/m-p/155335#M34941 <P>Hey,</P> <P>I couldn't find information about this - can I use flexgroups to host oracle dnfs data?</P> <P>Is this supported by NetApp?</P> <P>Thanks,</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:14:20 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-Oracle-DNFS-supported-with-FlexGroups/m-p/155335#M34941 SuperTeam 2025-06-04T11:14:20Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-Oracle-DNFS-supported-with-FlexGroups/m-p/155338#M34942 <P>FlexGroups are for unstructured data.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>A database, by definition, is structured data. Could you? maybe? should you? Probably not.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>If your Database has a number of large files, FlexGroups will likely not get much. Just stick with DNFS. It works very well and will give the same or better effect: If set up properly, Oracle should have an multiple NFS paths to every node and every volume and the Oracle DNFS will do its own thing to better performance.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Even if your database is smaller files, I am not sure it would be a good idea to use DNFS and FlexGroups for the same data,</P> Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:07:44 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Is-Oracle-DNFS-supported-with-FlexGroups/m-p/155338#M34942 TMACMD 2020-04-06T12:07:44Z