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

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Preface.................................................................................................................................9
Publication History.................................................................................................................................9
1 Introducing Serviceguard Extension for RAC............................................................11
About Serviceguard Extension for RAC...............................................................................................11
How Serviceguard Extension for RAC Works (High-Level Perspective).............................................12
Component Products and Processes of SG SMS Serviceguard Cluster File System for RAC..............13
Communication Infrastructure.............................................................................................................14
Data Flow.........................................................................................................................................14
Communication Requirements........................................................................................................14
Cluster Interconnect Communication Channel....................................................................................15
Low Latency Transport....................................................................................................................15
Group Membership Services/Atomic Broadcast.............................................................................15
Cluster Membership...................................................................................................................16
Cluster Communications...........................................................................................................16
Low-level Communication: Port Relationship Between GAB and Processes......................................16
Cluster Volume Manager......................................................................................................................16
CVM Architecture...........................................................................................................................17
CVM Communication.....................................................................................................................17
Port W.........................................................................................................................................17
Port V..........................................................................................................................................17
Cluster File System...............................................................................................................................17
CFS Architecture..............................................................................................................................18
CFS Communication........................................................................................................................18
Oracle Disk Manager............................................................................................................................18
ODM Architecture...........................................................................................................................18
ODM Performance Enhancements..................................................................................................18
ODM Communication.....................................................................................................................19
Additional Features of Serviceguard Extension for RAC.....................................................................19
2 Planning SGeRAC Installation and Configuration....................................................21
Installation Requirements.....................................................................................................................21
Hardware Requirements.................................................................................................................21
Disk Space (local).......................................................................................................................21
Supported Software.........................................................................................................................22
Supported Operating Systems.........................................................................................................22
Supported HP-UX Operating Environments..................................................................................22
Identifying the Operating Environment....................................................................................23
Required HP Patches.......................................................................................................................23
About CVM and CFS in an SGeRAC Environment..............................................................................23
About CVM......................................................................................................................................23
CVM Configuration Differences................................................................................................23
CVM Recovery...........................................................................................................................23
About CFS........................................................................................................................................24
CFS File System Benefits............................................................................................................24
CFS Configuration Differences..................................................................................................24
CFS Recovery..............................................................................................................................24
Coordinating CVM and CFS Configurations..................................................................................25
About Shared Disk Groups.............................................................................................................25
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