VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 1, VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle

Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:54am VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle

VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle

Standard Edition/Enterprise Edition

There are two versions of this product:

◆ VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Standard Edition

◆ VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Enterprise Edition

The Enterprise Edition contains everything in the Standard Edition plus Storage Mapping,

Database FlashSnap, Storage Checkpoints, and Storage Rollback.

Note VERITAS Storage Foundation/High Availability (HA) for Oracle is available only with the

Enterprise Edition.

Unless otherwise noted, features pertain to both the Standard and Enterprise Edition products.

Features

VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle combines the strengths of the core VERITAS technology

products with database-specific enhancements to offer performance, availability, and manageability

for Oracle database servers.

VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle includes the following products:

◆ VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM)

A disk management subsystem that supports disk striping, disk mirroring, and simplified disk

management for improved data availability and performance.

◆ VERITAS Database FlashSnap

Database FlashSnap, a feature of the Enterprise Edition, lets you create, resynchronize, and

reverse resynchronize an online point-in-time image of a database. You can use this image to

perform backup, other maintenance tasks, or off-host processing while providing continuous

data availability. Also, database administrators can perform these tasks without root

privileges. Database FlashSnap tasks may be performed through the VERITAS Storage

Foundation for Oracle GUI or the command line interface.