Veritas Storage Foundation™ 5.0.1 for Oracle RAC Installation, Configuration, and Administrator's Guide Extracts for the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite on HP-UX 11i v3
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- Veritas Storage Foundation™ 5.0.1 for Oracle RAC Installation, Configuration, and Administrator's Guide Extracts for the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite on HP-UX 11i v3
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introducing Serviceguard Extension for RAC
- About Serviceguard Extension for RAC
- How Serviceguard Extension for RAC Works (High-Level Perspective)
- Component Products and Processes of SG SMS Serviceguard Cluster File System for RAC
- Communication Infrastructure
- Cluster Interconnect Communication Channel
- Low-level Communication: Port Relationship Between GAB and Processes
- Cluster Volume Manager
- Cluster File System
- Oracle Disk Manager
- Additional Features of Serviceguard Extension for RAC
- 2 Planning SGeRAC Installation and Configuration
- 3 Configuring the Repository Database for Oracle
- 4 Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback
- About Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback in SGeRAC
- Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback for Backup and Restore
- Determining Space Requirements for Storage Checkpoints
- Performance of Storage Checkpoints
- Backing up and Recovering the Database Using Storage Checkpoints
- Guidelines for Oracle Recovery
- Using the Storage Checkpoint Command Line Interface (CLI)
- Examples of Using the Command Line Interface
- Prerequisites
- Creating or Updating the Repository Using dbed_update
- Creating Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptcreate
- Displaying Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptdisplay
- Mounting Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptmount
- Unmounting Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptumount
- Performing Storage Rollback Using dbed_ckptrollback
- Removing Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptremove
- Cloning the Oracle Instance Using dbed_clonedb
- 5 Using FlashSnap for Backup and Recovery
- About Veritas Database FlashSnap
- Planning to Use Database FlashSnap
- Preparing Hosts and Storage for Database FlashSnap
- Summary of Database Snapshot Steps
- Creating a Snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)
- Validating a Snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)
- Displaying, Copying, and Removing a Snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)
- Creating a Snapshot (dbed_vmsnap)
- Backing Up the Database from Snapshot Volumes (dbed_vmclonedb)
- Cloning a Database (dbed_vmclonedb)
- Resynchronizing the Snapshot to Your Database
- Removing a Snapshot Volume
- 6 Investigating I/O Performance for SGeRAC: Storage Mapping
- A Troubleshooting SGeRAC
Figure 1-1 Serviceguard Extension for RAC Architecture
Component Products and Processes of SG SMS Serviceguard Cluster File
System for RAC
To understand how the SG SMS Serviceguard Cluster File System for RAC product manages
database instances running in parallel on multiple nodes, review the architecture and
communication mechanisms that provide the infrastructure for Oracle RAC. Table 1-1 highlights
the SG SMS Serviceguard Cluster File System for RAC components products.
Table 1-1 SG SMS Serviceguard Cluster File System for RAC Bundle Component Products
DescriptionComponent Product
Enables simultaneous access to shared volumes based on technology from Veritas
Volume Manager (VxVM).
Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)
Enables simultaneous access to shared file systems based on technology from
Veritas File System (VxFS).
Cluster File System (CFS)
Provides the interface with the Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) API.Database Accelerator
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