ISCSI/NFS Storage for Oracle Clusterware

We are planning to use Oracle Clusterware 11.2.0.3 for protecting 3rd party applications. Our environment is Solaris 10 x86_64.
Would a ZFS volume on a 3rd machine (also Solaris 10 x86_64), published as an iSCSI target or a NFS share, be supported?
Thanks.
Edited by: user12022918 on 15-Apr-2013 00:47

Hi,
What are the applications planned to be protected by Clusterware?. Do they require a shared/cluster file system for persistent storage?
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