VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 12, Using the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Graphical User Interface
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Prerequisites
◆ Files you want to convert must be regular datafiles on VxFS file systems or links that point to
regular VxFS files.
Usage Notes
◆ Converting existing datafiles to be Quick I/O files may not be the optimal thing to do if these
files are fragmented.
▼ To convert Oracle datafiles to Quick I/O files
1. Shut down the database from the GUI.
2. Click a datafile in the object tree. (You may need to expand the tree view to find the icon.)
3. Select one of the following methods to generate datafile statistics.
◆ From the menu bar, select Datafiles > Conversion.
or
◆ Right click the datafile to bring up a pop-up menu. Then click Conversion.
4. At the prompt, click Ye s to convert the datafile to a Quick I/O file.
If the datafile was successfully converted to a Quick I/O file, you will receive a confirmation
message. Click OK to view the information.
Converting Quick I/O Files to Regular Datafiles
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle provides an option to convert your Quick I/O files to
regular Oracle datafiles. Use this option only if you are running Oracle9i and VERITAS Extension
for Oracle Disk Manager.
Prerequisites
◆ Files you want to convert must be Quick I/O files on VxFS file systems or links that point to
Quick I/O files.
▼ To convert Quick I/O files to regular datafiles
1. Shut down the database from the GUI.
2. Click a Quick I/O file in the object tree. (You may need to expand the tree view to find the
icon.)