Technical Article
Oracle will support the Oracle software on clusters comprised of RAC compatible technologies and supported software combinations
Please consult your hardware and software vendors as not all vendors may choose to support their hardware or software in every possible cluster combination
For RAC database and server virtualization (Oracle VM, LPAR, vPAR, LDOM, etc.) support see here.
For RAC database and SAP certification information see SAP support note 527843.
To use Oracle Clusterware, even in a non-RAC environment, the RAC hardware and software requirements must be met (unless otherwise stated.)
NOTE: The information in the following matrix applies to all UNIX platforms unless otherwise stated in the platform specific section.
Technology Category Technology Notes
Network Interconnect Technologies Ethernet
1 Gigabit NIC’s and Switches
10 GigE recommended (see notes)
Cross over cables are not supported
Use correct type of cable (Cat 5, 5e, or 6)
Sun 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution is supported
IBM on AIX 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet solution is supported
HP on HP-UX 10 Gigabit Ethernet solution is supported
InfiniBand (IB)
RDS over IB is supported (see notes)
IP over IB is supported
IP over IB and RDSv3 are supported on IBM POWER systems and Oracle RAC 11.2.0.4 with AIX 6.1 TL9 SP1 and above or AIX 7.1 TL3 SP1 and above, and Oracle RAC 11.2.0.4 with patch for bug number 12909465.
RDSv3 is supported on AIX 7.2 Power (64-bit) with Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2) using RoCE Adapters.
RDSv3 over IB is supported on IBM POWER systems and Oracle RAC 12.1.0.2.5 (+ patch 12909465) with AIX 7.1 TL03 SP06: 7100-03-06-1543 (2016/02/26) or newer.
RDSv3 over IB is supported on IBM POWER systems and Oracle RAC 12.1.0.2.5 (+ patch 12909465) with AIX 7.2 TL00 SP05: 7200-00-05-1720 (2017/09/29) or newer.
RDSv3 is supported on Solaris SPARC with Oracle 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2 on Solaris 11.2 and later.
Storage Technologies
All storage products must be supported by the server (host) and storage vendors
Fibre Channel (FC) Switch required for greater than two nodes (if the storage system does not have enough FC port for the cluster nodes)
SCSI Support for two nodes only.
iSCSI
Support for up to 30 nodes. Private GigE storage network is required.
The iSCSI accessed storage must be supported by the system and storage vendors.
NFS File Server
Following NFS storage vendors are supported: EMC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NetApp, Hitachi, and Oracle (formerly SUN & Pillar)
NFS file servers do not require RAC certification. The NFS file server must be supported by the system and storage vendors.
Currently, only NFS protocol version 3 (NFSv3) is supported.
Platform Specific Information
Platform Technology Category Technology Notes
HP-UX Itanium Server/Processor Architecture HP-UX Integrity Servers Static nPars and static vPars are supported.
Dynamic vPars are supported on 11iV3 and 11iV2 with 10gR2, minimum requirements: 10.2.0.3 for Oracle Clusterware (full Oracle stack) and 10.2.0.4 for Service Guard SLVM and Storage Management Suite
Cluster File System/Volume Manager Serviceguard Storage Management Suite See Certify for detailed support information
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC See Certify for detailed support information
HP-UX PA-RISC Server/Processor Architecture HP 9000 Servers Static nPars and static vPars are supported. Dynamic vPars are supported on 11iV3 and 11iV2 with 10gR2, minimum requirements: 10.2.0.3 for Oracle Clusterware (full Oracle stack) and 10.2.0.4 for Service Guard SLVM and Storage Management Suite
Cluster File System/Volume Manager Serviceguard Storage Management Suite See Certify for detailed support information
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC See Certify for detailed support information
HP Tru64 Network Interconnect Technologies Memory Channel Hub More than 2 nodes requires Memory Channel Hub
Platform Technology Category Technology Notes
IBM AIX Server/Processor Architecture IBM System p, i, BladeCenter JS20, JS21
VIOS Virtual SCSI & NPIV for ASM data storage and associated raw disk based Voting and OCR with 10gR2, 11gR1, 11gR2, and 12cR1 (subject to Note ID 754305.1)
VIOS 1.5 is supported with CRS and Database storage on AIX logical volumes in concurrent volume groups with HACMP 5.4.1, AIX 6.1 and 11gR1
VIOS Virtual LAN for all public network and private network interconnect for supported data storage options
Minimum CPU requirements for micro partition is 2
Cluster File System/Volume Manager
GPFS For details on the certified Oracle and GPFS combinations search My Oracle Support certification listings for GPFS, and review note 1376369.1.
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC See Certify for detailed support information
Platform Technology Category Technology Notes
Oracle Solaris SPARC Server/Processor Architecture Sun Servers
Dynamic System Domains (DSD) is supported (static only).
Solaris Global Containers is supported. Solaris Local Containers is supported with Oracle RAC 10gR2 and 11gR1 (with Oracle Clusterware or Solaris Cluster on SPARC)
Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms) is supported with Oracle RAC 10gR2 and 11gR1 with Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 (update 8) or later with Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3
Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDoms) is supported with Oracle RAC 11gR2 with Oracle Solaris 10 10/08 (update 6) or later (patches 142900-12, 141870-03) with Oracle Clusterware 11.2.
See details at Supported Virtualization and Partitioning Technologies for Oracle Database and RAC Product Releases (Doc ID 1173831.1)
Network Interconnect Technologies RSM/SCI Support on Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.0, 3.1 for Oracle 9.2.0.3, 10.1
Cluster File System/Volume Manager Oracle Solaris Cluster GFS
Oracle 8, 9: support Oracle binary and archive logs ONLY
Oracle 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2.0.1: support Oracle binary, archive logs, OCR, and voting disk ONLY
Oracle Solaris Cluster StorEdge QFS
Support Oracle 9.2.0.5, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2.0.1
Support up to 16 nodes
Oracle Solaris Cluster Solaris Volume Manager
Oracle 9.2.0.5: support database files
Oracle 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2.0.1: support database files, OCR, and voting disk
Support up to 8 nodes
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC See Certify for detailed support information
VERITAS DEB/AC 3.5, 4.0 Support up to 8 nodes with raw devices
Oracle Solaris x86-64 Cluster File System/Volume Manager Oracle Solaris Cluster GFS
Oracle 10.2, 11.2.0.1: support Oracle binary, archive logs, OCR, and voting disk ONLY
Oracle Solaris Cluster StorEdge QFS
Support Oracle 10.2, 11.2.0.1
Support up to 8 nodes
Oracle Solaris Cluster Solaris Volume Manager
Oracle 10.2, 11.2.0.1: support database files, OCR, and voting disk
Support up to 8 nodes
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC See Certify for detailed support information
