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About Oracle 10g RAC in an SF Oracle RAC environment

Review the information on infrastructure requirements and Oracle RAC in an SF Oracle RAC environment.

Oracle RAC infrastructure requirements

Oracle RAC requires a cluster infrastructure that deals with these aspects:

• Shared concurrent access to storage
  • ODM support
  • ODM-compliant cluster file system
  • Cluster-volume management
• Cluster membership management
  • Tracking current members
  • Joining systems
  • Leaving systems
• Communications channels between systems
  • Inter-instance messaging
  • Cluster state
  • Cache fusion