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HP PolyServe File Serving Utility for Oracle

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Questions

1. What versions of Oracle are supported?
2. What Operating Systems are supported?
3. What is the amount of storage capacity that is supported?
4. Is it capable of online growth of volumes?
5. Does the File Serving Utility offer a symmetric cluster file system?
6. Does the File Serving Utility do snapshots?
7. What is the Matrix Manager?

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Q1. What versions of Oracle are supported?
A1. Oracle 9i, 10g and 11g are supported.
Q2. What Operating Systems are supported?
A2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.0 Support: 32- and 64-bit versions SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 Support: 32- and 64-bit versions
Q3. What is the amount of storage capacity that is supported?
A3. The File Serving Utility Supports many 100TBs of industry-standard network storage.
Q4. Is it capable of online growth of volumes?
A4. Yes. It supports growing single LUNs (basic volumes) and supports growing volumes spanning multiple LUNs, LUN partitions, and arrays (dynamic volumes).
Q5. Does the File Serving Utility offer a symmetric cluster file system?
A5. Yes. The utility has a fully symmetric, general purpose, cluster file system that supports generalized CPU-intensive workloads, offering no single point of failure or system bottlenecks.
Q6. Does the File Serving Utility do snapshots?
A6. Yes. The File Serving Utility initiates and coordinates block-level snapshots across Shared Volumes spanning one or more storage devices. This capability is supported on HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) arrays.
Q7. What is the Matrix Manager?
A7. The Matrix Manager is an easy to use graphical user interface for managing application resources across the cluster through a single console. Move User Shares, Database Instances, and other application resources from server to server-in a single mouse-click.
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