Product Description

Oracle Cloud File System is a standalone product since version 11.2.0.2. It bundles Oracle 11gR2 software products, like Oracle Clusterware, ASM, ACFS, and so on. Oracle Cloud File System allows managing general purpose files stored outside an Oracle Database across multiple operating system platforms with one management interface, one set of installation and configuration tools, one Clusterware framework and a single vendor for support and troubleshooting. Starting from OracleDB 12C, Oracle ACFS supports Oracle database file in addition to general purpose files which allows to store entire databases inside ACFS file system.

Oracle Cloud File System (Oracle CloudFS) includes:

• Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS)
• Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (Oracle ADVM)