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
- 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

List of Tables
1 Printing History ..............................................................................................................................9
1-1 SG SMS Serviceguard Cluster File System for RAC Bundle Component Products.....................13
2-1 Hardware Requirements...............................................................................................................21
2-2 Disk Space Requirements..............................................................................................................22
2-3 Supported Software.......................................................................................................................22
2-4 HP-UX Operating Environments..................................................................................................22
3-1 sfua_db_config options.................................................................................................................29
4-1 Storage Checkpoint Notes.............................................................................................................34
4-2 Backup Storage Checkpoint Notes................................................................................................35
4-3 Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Commands.............................................................38
4-4 Repository Using dbed_update Notes..........................................................................................39
4-5 Create Storage Checkpoint Notes.................................................................................................40
4-6 Display Storage Checkpoints Notes..............................................................................................41
4-7 Scheduling Storage Checkpoints Notes........................................................................................43
4-8 Mounting Storage Checkpoints Notes..........................................................................................44
4-9 Unmounting Storage Checkpoints Notes.....................................................................................44
4-10 Perform Storage Rollback Notes...................................................................................................45
4-11 Remove Storage Checkpoints Notes.............................................................................................45
4-12 Cloning Oracle Instance Notes......................................................................................................46
4-13 dbed_clonedb Command Options................................................................................................46
5-1 vxsnap Command for Snapshot Mirror Notes..............................................................................55
5-2 dbed_vmchecksnap Command Options.......................................................................................61
5-3 Parameter Values for dbed_vmchecksnap....................................................................................65
5-4 Snapplan Requirements................................................................................................................66
5-5 Validating Snapplan Requirements...............................................................................................69
5-6 Check Snapplan Notes..................................................................................................................71
5-7 Create Snapshot Notes..................................................................................................................73
5-8 Backup Snapshot Notes.................................................................................................................75
5-9 Recover Database Notes................................................................................................................77
5-10 dbed_vmclonedb command options.............................................................................................79
5-11 Resynchronize Snapshot Notes.....................................................................................................82
5-12 Remove Snapshot Notes................................................................................................................82
6-1 View Storage and I/O Information Commands............................................................................85
6-2 vxstorage_stats Syntax..................................................................................................................86
6-3 dbed_analyzer Command.............................................................................................................88
6-4 Storage Mapping Views................................................................................................................91
A-1 Scripts for Engineering Support Analysis.....................................................................................95
A-2 Oracle Notes .................................................................................................................................96
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