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Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 7.4.1 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris

Last Published: 2019-06-18

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.1)

Platform: Solaris

Creating the database storage on CFS

You can configure the database storage on Veritas cluster file system. The following procedure provides the steps to create the file system.

Note:

SmartIO provides application templates to optimize caching for databases running on VxFS file systems. For more information, see the Veritas InfoScale SmartIO for Solid State Drives Solutions Guide, topic "About SmartIO caching for Oracle databases on VxFS file systems."

To create the database storage on CFS

Create a disk group (for example, oradatadg):
```
# vxdg -s init oradatadg Disk_1
```
Create a single shared volume (for example, oradatavol) that is large enough to contain a file system for all tablespaces.
For example, assuming 6.8 GB is required for database storage, type:
```
# vxassist -g oradatadg make oradatavol 6800M
```
Start the volume in the disk group:
```
# vxvol -g oradatadg startall
```
Create a VxFS file system in this volume. From one node, type:
```
# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/oradatadg/oradatavol
```
Create a mount point for the shared file system:
```
# mkdir /oradata
```

From the same node, mount the file system:

# mount -F vxfs -o cluster /dev/vx/dsk/oradatadg/oradatavol \
/oradata

Set the "Oracle"user as the owner of the file system, and set "755" as the permissions:
```
# chown oracle:oinstall /oradata
# chmod 755 /oradata
```
On the other node(s), complete step 5 and step 6.
Create the database using the Oracle documentation.