Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

Table 1-1
Veritas Storage Foundation management features
UsesFeature
■ To improve Oracle performance and manage system
bandwidth through an improved Application
Programming Interface (API) that contains advanced
kernel support for file I/O, use Veritas Oracle Disk
Manager (ODM).
■ To enable selected I/O to use caching to improve ODM
I/O performance, use Veritas Extension for Cached
Oracle Disk Manager (Cached ODM).
■ To achieve raw device performance for databases run
on Veritas File System file systems while providing the
administrative advantages of using file systems, use
Veritas Quick I/O.
■ To further enhance database performance by leveraging
large system memory to selectively buffer the
frequently accessed data, use Veritas Cached Quick I/O.
■ To achieve improved performance for DB2 or Sybase
databases run on Veritas File System file systems,
without restrictions on increasing file size, use Veritas
Concurrent I/O.
Enhanced I/O methods enable
you to improve database
performance:
■ Veritas Extension for
Oracle Disk Manager
See theVeritas Storage
Foundation: Storage and
Availability Management
for Oracle Databases
■ Veritas Extension for
Cached Oracle Disk
Manager
See theVeritas Storage
Foundation: Storage and
Availability Management
for Oracle Databases
■ Veritas Quick I/O
■ Veritas Cached Quick I/O
■ Veritas Concurrent I/O
■ To optimize the use of Thin Storage on new volumes,
initialize the volumes using Thin Provisioning.
■ To optimize storage administration by reclaiming space
deleted or shrunk on the Veritas Volume Manager
volume or the Veritas File System file system, use Thin
Reclamation.
■ To optimize the use of Thin Storage for Veritas Volume
Manager volumes on Veritas File System , use
SmartMove to enable copy operations to move only
used blocks.
Thin Provisioning supports
the use of Thin Storage for
your data:
■ Thin Provisioning
■ Thin Reclamation
■ SmartMove
Introducing Veritas Storage Foundation™ Advanced Features
About Storage Foundation management features
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