Hello
We are deploying 11g RAC on Linux using FAS32 series NetApp Filer
We will be using Oracle Direct NFS to access the storage and will be creating various ASM Disk groups to store data, clusterware and backup etc
Couple of questions:
1. In our scenario, how the storage would be presented to Linux servers? Would it be in form of LUNS or Volumes?
How should IT configure storage chunks to be presented to the database servers? We are going to use Oracle Direct NFS to connect to those chunks / storage on NetApp Filer
We read somewhere that LUNS are presented to server if using ISCSI or FC but if using NFS, it would be in in the form
of volumes. Is that true? if yes, can you give an example? For example assuming that the aggregate is 2 TB, and out of that we created 3 Flex Volumes of 300 GB each. 3 ASM disk group of 300 GB each with external redundancy would be created using those 3 volumes. Should IT create 3 luns of 100 GB each from each of the 3 volumes and then present those LUNS to the database server?
2. Is there a one to one mapping between Flex Volumes and LUNS? Can multiple LUNS be carved out from single flex vol? Do we even need LUNS when using NFS?
thanks