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

To prepare a replica Oracle database on a host other than the primary host

If not already present, install the Oracle software onto the host’s local disks.

The location of the Oracle home directory ($ORACLE_HOME) is used for the

database instance that is created from the snapshot volumes.

Note: In the examples shown here, the home directory is /rep/oracle in the

local disk group, localdg. If required, you could instead choose to use the

same file paths and database name as on the primary host.

In the local disk group, localdg, use the following command to create the

volumes that are to be used for the redo logs and archived logs of the

replicated database:

# vxassist -g diskgroup make volume size

For example, to create a 1-gigabyte redo log volume rep_dbase_logs and a

2-gigabyte archived log volume rep_dbase_arch:

# vxassist -g localdg make rep_dbase_logs 1g

# vxassist -g localdg make rep_dbase_arch 2g

Make the file systems for the redo logs and archive logs in the volumes created

in the previous step using the following command:

# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/diskgroup/volume

In this example, the commands would be:

# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/localdg/rep_dbase_logs

# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/localdg/rep_dbase_arch

Create the mount points that are to be used to mount the new database. For

example, create /rep/dbase_vol for the snapshot of the tablespace volume,

/rep/dbase_logs for the redo logs, and /rep/dbase_arch for the archived

logs:

# mkdir -p /rep/dbase_vol

# mkdir -p /rep/dbase_logs

# mkdir -p /rep/dbase_arch

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