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Oracle Tools Available for Working With RAW Partitions on Windows Platforms (Doc ID 555645.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 16, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.1 to 11.1.0.7 [Release 9.2 to 11.1]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Microsoft Windows Itanium (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)
Microsoft Windows (32-bit)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (64-bit Itanium)Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (64-bit AMD64 and Intel EM64T)Microsoft Windows (32-bit)

Purpose

This note presents tools available for managing raw partitions on Windows platforms mainly intended for - but not limited to - use with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC).

Raw partitions can be used to store Oracle Clusterware files (OCR and voting disks) or as an alternative to Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS) and Automatic Storage Management (ASM) for the storage of Oracle datafiles. 

This note includes a description of the use of the Object Link Manager (OLM) that is available in all versions since Oracle8i.

Scope

This note provides information useful for system and database administrators supporting (single instance and RAC) Oracle environments on Windows that are making use of raw partitions.

Details

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In this Document
Purpose
Scope
Details
 A. Object Link Manager (OLM) features
 B. OLM product location
 C. description of the main OLM utilities

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