Application Use Cases for the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite, November 2009

T8686xx/T8696xx: HP Serviceguard Cluster File System for Oracle

The HP Serviceguard Cluster File System for Oracle (SGCFSO) is available only as an integrated

bundle with MCOE, HAOE, and DCOE. It is not available as standalone. It is an integrated product

bundle that includes Serviceguard high availability clustering with Symantec’s VxVM and VxFS, plus

the Veritas CFS and Veritas CVM for concurrent data access from multiple servers for Oracle single

instance environments. This bundle also includes a special database accelerator for Oracle that

provides the performance of near raw mode with the manageability of a file system. This bundle

includes the following individual components:

 HP Serviceguard

 HP Serviceguard Manager

 HP Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit

 Veritas File System version

 Veritas Volume Manager version

 Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP)

 Veritas Enterprise Administrator

 Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST)

 Instant Volume Snapshots (FlashSnap)

 Storage Checkpoints

 Disk Group Split and Join (FlashSnap)

 FastResync

 Oracle Disk Manager for Oracle 9i and 10g

 Veritas Storage Rollback

 Storage Mapping to a LUN Level*

 Database FlashSnap*

 Veritas Cluster File System (CFS)

 Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)

Compared to the SGCFS bundle, the SGCFSO bundle adds the database accelerator and other

useful tools, such as Database FlashSnap for Oracle databases. The Database FlashSnap

functionality, in combination with CFS, lets you easily create a database replica that can be used on

other cluster nodes for backup or decision support systems. This bundle is primarily designed for

Oracle single-instance database environments but it can also be used with all applications discussed

in this paper.

The SGCFSO is another option for TruCluster users (including AdvFS and LSM) who want to transition

an Oracle environment from Tru64 to HP-UX.

Note

SGCFSO is available only as an integrated bund

le with MCOE, HAOE,

and DCOE. On HP-UX 11i v2, it is available with MCOE. On HP-UX 11i v3,

it is available with HAOE and DCOE.

SGCFSO is not available as standalone. If you are interested in the

standalone SGCFSO, the alternate bundles to consider is T2777xx or

T2775xx.

For existing HP-UX users who already have Serviceguard or the MCOE and

want to upgrade to a Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundle,

contact your HP representative for more details.