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 Extension for Oracle Disk Manager

VERITAS Extension for Oracle Disk Manager is a custom storage interface designed

specifically for Oracle9i and 10g. Oracle Disk Manager allows Oracle9i and 10g to improve

performance and manageability system bandwidth through an improved Application

Programming Interface (API) that contains advanced kernel support for file I/O.

◆ VERITAS VxDBA Menu Utility

The VxDBA menu-driven utility allows you to perform various administrative tasks, including

database monitoring, Storage Checkpoint and Storage Rollback administration, and file system

space planning capabilities for Storage Checkpoints.

You can also use the graphical user interface or command line interface to perform these tasks.

◆ VERITAS Enterprise Administrator

VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA) is the infrastructure that allows you to access

VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle, VERITAS Volume Manager, and VERITAS File

System information and features through the GUI.

◆ VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle Advanced BLI Agent (optional)

The VERITAS NetBackup for Oracle Advanced BLI Agent software supports Block-Level

Incremental (BLI) Backup to reduce database down time, backup time, and backup volume, as

well as CPU usage and network overhead. (Contact your Sales Representative for information

about this optional product.)

An optional High Availability (HA) version of VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Enterprise

Edition, which includes VERITAS Cluster Server, is available for customers who have high

system-availability requirements.

The following is an example of the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle storage stack:

Oracle

VxFS Oracle Disk

Manager

Quick I/O

VxVM

Disks RAID