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

Table 1-1
Veritas Storage Foundation management features (continued)
UsesFeature
■ To make a snapshot of a volume, use the Veritas Volume
Manager Flashsnap feature.
■ To perform backup or other maintenance tasks while
providing continuous data availability, use the Veritas
Volume Manager Flashsnap feature.
■ To perform off-host processing while providing
continuous data availability, use the Veritas Volume
Manager Flashsnap feature.
■ To resynchronize an online point-in-time image of a
database in an Oracle environment, use the Storage
Foundation Database Flashsnap feature.
■ To reverse resynchronize an online point-in-time image
of a database in an Oracle environment, use the Storage
Foundation Database Flashsnap feature.
■ To create a mountable point-in-time image of a file
system, use the Veritas File System Storage Checkpoints
feature.
■ To create a mountable point-in-time image of a file
system in an Oracle environment, use the Veritas File
System Storage Checkpoints feature.
■ To use point-in-time copies to make a STANDBY
database for troubleshooting, reporting, and quality
assurance for databases, use the cloning commands for
Database Storage Checkpoints or Database FlashSnap.
Point-in-time copy features
enable you to capture an
instantaneous image of
actively changing data:
■ FlashSnap
■ Database FlashSnap
See theVeritas Storage
Foundation: Storage and
Availability Management
for Oracle Databases
■ Storage Checkpoints
■ Database Storage
Checkpoints
See the Veritas Storage
Foundation: Storage and
Availability Management
for Oracle Databases
■ To monitor your file access patterns and manage the
movement of files across storage tiers to optimize
utilization, use SmartTier at the file level.
■ To monitor file access patterns for your Oracle database
and manage the movement of files across storage tiers
to optimize storage utilization, use SmartTier at the
file level.
■ To monitor your access patterns for file objects in your
Oracle database and manage the movement of database
objects at the sub-file level between storage tiers to
optimize storage utilization, use SmartTier at the
sub-file level.
■ To monitor file access patterns for your Oracle database
and manage the movement of database objects across
storage tiers to optimize storage utilization, use
SmartTier at the file level.
SmartTier enables you to
manage the growth of your
database storage more
efficiently.
SmartTier for Oracle enables
you to manage the growth of
your Oracle database more
efficiently
See the Veritas Storage
Foundation: Storage and
Availability Management for
Oracle Databases
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