Monday, May 30, 2016

Cell Storage Processes

There are three processes will be running on the cell stoarge servers.


cellsrv - Cell Server

It is mutlithreaded process. 
The primary storage software component. Responsible for disk I/O with the use of iDB protocol*.

It communicates with Oracle Database to serve simple block requests like database buffer cache reads and Smart Scans with projections and filters. 

CELLSRV also implements IORM and collect statistics on its operation.

MS - Management Server

The Management Server process acts like an coordinator between command line interface and cell storage. 

It provide the interface of storage for configuration and administration purpose. 
It communicates with cellsrv process in providing the required information to the cellcli commands that are being executed.
It is also responsible to send alerts and collect statistics.

RS - Restart Server

Restart service will monitor the cellsrv and MS processes. 
It restarts them if necessary.


* iDB protocol is an intelligent DataBase protocol which is the heart of the Exadata. It is used to do communication between Database node and cell storage. It transfers data between cell storage  and Database Node. Also it's provides interconnection bandwidth aggregation and failover.

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