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
Table 2-2 Disk Space Requirements
Required depotsDirectory
1.5 GB/opt
225 MB/usr
32 MB/var
230 MB/
512 MB/tmp
600 MB/var/tmp
3.1 GBTotal
Supported Software
Software versions that Storage Foundation 5.0.1 supports include:
Table 2-3 Supported Software
Oracle 10g Release 2
Oracle 11g Release 1
Oracle RAC
11i v3HP-UX operating system
Use only versions of VxVM and VxFS provided on the software disc. Remove
other versions before you install the software from the SGeRAC product disc.
VxVM, VxFS
To verify the latest information on support for Oracle database versions, see the Veritas Technical
Support TechNote at:
http://support.veritas.com/docs/281875
Supported Operating Systems
Within a cluster, all nodes must use the same operating system version. Run Serviceguard eRAC
on HP-UX 11i v3 and apply the latest HP-UX operating system patches available from HP.
Supported HP-UX Operating Environments
HP-UX 11i Operating Environments (OEs) are bundles of key applications available to users to
help them install a complete operating system in a single-pass process. Symantec supports
SGeRAC for HP-UX on the following OEs:
Table 2-4 HP-UX Operating Environments
HPUX Operating Environment DescriptionHPUX Operating Environment
Identification
HP-UX Version
HP-UX 11i v3 High Availability OEHPUX11i-OE-HAHP-UX 11i v3
HP-UX 11i v3 Data Center OEHPUX11i-OE-DCHP-UX 11i v3
22 Planning SGeRAC Installation and Configuration