Oracle RAC and ASM for SAP in SLES

[Former Member]

Hello,

We are installing our SAP ERP with Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 on SLES 11 x86_64. According note 527843 (Oracle RAC support in the SAP environment), this is supported for SAP. But as a requirement ASM Cluster File System must be setup.

But when Oracle Grid is installed, ACFS installation returns the following error:

ACFS-9459: ADVM/ACFS is not supported on this OS version: 'sles-release-11.1-1.152'

So Oracle GRID has been installed without ACFS, so we will not be able to use Oracle Clusterware for providing high availability of SAP.

As this is supposed to be a feasible combination (Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 with ASM on SLES 11 SP1, Netweaver 7.0), I'm wondering if it is a bug, a lack of documentation or something I'm missing.

Kind regards,

Fermí

[Former Member]

Read this below Oracle Note:

ACFS not supported on certain platforms [ID 1075058.1]

oracle@node1:~/app/oracle/product/grid/log/node1> tail -1 alertesiha.log

[client(14083)]CRS-10001:ADVM/ACFS is not supported on SUSE

Then these can be ignored, since ACFS/ADVM may not be supported for your platform. As of this writing, Sun, AIX, SuSE 10 are all supported in 11.2.0.2 only. HP-UX, SuSe 11 and RH6.0, as well as Oracle UEK ((2.6.32-100*) are not yet supported in 11.2.0.2. Keep in mind that this does not prevent your Grid Infrastructure stack (Clusterware and ASM) from starting. This is just an informational message for these platforms

Extract from SAP Note:

RAC 11.2.0.2 (x86 & x86_64 only):

Oracle Clusterware 11.2.0.2 + ASM/ACFS 11.2.0.2 (currently only for SLES10, RHEL5, OL 5.x (without UEK))

Thanks

Srikanth M