Linking Oracle with the Veritas ODM libraries provides the best file system performance. Review the instructions on creating the link and confirming that Oracle uses the libraries. Shared file systems in RAC clusters without ODM libraries linked to Oracle may exhibit slow performance and are not supported.
If ODM cannot find the resources it needs to provide support for cluster file systems, it does not allow Oracle to identify cluster files and causes Oracle to fail at startup. Run the following command:
If the status is "enabled," ODM is supporting cluster files. Any other cluster status indicates that ODM is not supporting cluster files. Other possible values include: