VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 2, Setting Up Databases
Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:54am Setting Up a New Database
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configuration after your database files have been converted. See the VERITAS Volume
Manager’s Administrator’s Guide for detailed information about VxVM’s online relayout
feature.
b. If you are using Oracle8i, convert all database files to Quick I/O files. See “Converting
Oracle Files to Quick I/O Files” on page 94. For Oracle9i, you simply need to link the
ODM library. See “Setting Up VERITAS Extension for Oracle Disk Manager” on
page 130.
If you are not currently running on VxVM and VxFS, see the VERITAS Storage Foundation for
Oracle Installation Guide and “Converting Existing Database Configurations to VxFS” on
page 154 for information about how to convert your existing database storage configuration to
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle.
5. For backup and recovery on the same host, you can use the Storage Checkpoint facility to
create file system snapshots of the database. A Storage Checkpoint creates an exact image of a
database instantly and provides a consistent image of the database from the point in time the
Storage Checkpoint was created. For more information about creating and managing Storage
Checkpoints, see “Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback” on page 162.
For off-host processing or backup, you can use the Database FlashSnap feature to create a
volume snapshot for the database. Database FlashSnap lets you capture an online image of an
actively changing database at a given instant, known as a snapshot. You can perform backups
and off-host processing tasks on snapshots while providing continuous availability of your
critical data.