VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Maintaining Your System Configuration Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am

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Note The Get Statistics button remains disabled until you fill in the above two fields.

5. The Total Sampling Period (in hours) displays the time used to perform the sampling of the

data.

6. The Display accumulated data checkbox is checked by default.

7. The Time Elapsed (in minutes) displays the amount of time it took to sample the data. The

progress status bar displays the percentage of sampling that is being completed.

8. After successful completion, a Confirmation dialog is displayed, indicating that the data was

successfully collected for the specified time. Click OK, to continue.

9. When you are through, click the Close button to quit.

Determining the Datafile File Type

You can view the datafile properties to determine if the datafile is a Quick I/O file, an Oracle Disk

Manager file, or a regular VxFS file.

▼ To determine the datafile file type

1. Click a datafile in the object tree. (You may need to expand the tree view to find the icon.)

2. Select one of the following methods to view datafile properties.

◆ From the menu bar, select File > Properties.

◆ Right click the datafile to bring up a pop-up menu. Then click Properties.

The Properties pop-up window is displayed.

3. Click OK when you have finished viewing the datafile properties.

Converting Regular Datafiles to Quick I/O Files

VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle provides an option to convert your regular datafiles to

Quick I/O files to improve performance.