3.7.0 HP StorageWorks HP Scalable NAS File Serving Software provisioning guide for Oracle HP Scalable NAS (AG513-96013, October 2009)

Contents
About this guide ................................................................... 6
Intended audience ............................................................................................... 6
HP technical support ............................................................................................ 6
Subscription service ............................................................................................. 6
HP websites ........................................................................................................ 7
Documentation feedback ...................................................................................... 7
1 Introduction ...................................................................... 9
Symmetrical multi-headed NAS ........................................................................... 10
Unique benefits for Oracle deployment ................................................................. 12
2 NAS Administrator: deploying HP Scalable NAS for use with
Oracle .............................................................................. 15
Managing clustered filesystems and dynamic volumes ........................................... 15
Dynamic volume manager ........................................................................... 15
PSFS filesystems .......................................................................................... 16
Standard File Optimized option versus DB Optimized option ...................... 16
DB Optimized mount option ................................................................... 18
Selecting Virtual NFS Service export options ......................................................... 20
Managing Virtual NFS Services ........................................................................... 22
Dynamic rehosting and monitoring of Virtual NFS Services ............................... 24
Virtual NFS Server RPC reply cache ............................................................... 26
Special instructions for Oracle Home ............................................................. 26
Configuring NLM for Oracle Home ............................................................... 27
Best practices for consistent user and group ids ............................................... 27
Hosting Virtual NFS Services for high performance ................................................ 28
Clearing NLM locks after a power failure on an NFS client .................................... 29
3 System Administrator: deploying database servers with HP
Scalable NAS .................................................................... 31
Mounting and linking filesystems for Oracle Home and Oracle data files .................. 31
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