VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Disabling the Oracle Disk Manager Feature Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:54am
136 VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator’s Guide
Disabling the Oracle Disk Manager Feature
Because the Oracle Disk Manager feature uses regular files, you can access these files as regular
VxFS files as soon as the feature is disabled.
Note To convert to VxFS with Quick I/O, disable the Oracle Disk Manager using the steps below.
Then, see “Converting Oracle Files to Quick I/O Files” on page 94 for more information.
▼ To disable the Oracle Disk Manager feature in an Oracle instance
1. Shut down the database instance.
2. Use the rm and the ln commands to remove the link to the Oracle Disk Manager Library as
follows:
For Oracle 10g
# rm ${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/libodm10.sl
# ln -s ${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/libodmd10.sl
${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/libodm10.sl
For Oracle9i
# rm ${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/libodm9.sl
# ln -s ${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/libodmd9.sl
${ORACLE_HOME}/lib/libodm9.sl
3. Restart the database instance.
Note Before disabling the Oracle Disk Manager feature, you may want to back up your files.