Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Release Notes (5900-1509, April 2011)

Changes related to Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools

New features for Storage Foundation for Databases tools package for database

storage management:

■ Storage Foundation for Cluster File (HA) System support

■ Cached Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) support, including Cached ODM for clusters

■ Cached ODM Manager support

■ Multiple disk group support for FlashSnap

■ Sub-file storage tiering is supported for SmartTier for Oracle (previously known

as Database Dynamic Storage Tiering)

■ SQLite repository

■ Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Plugin

■ Oracle 11gR2 support

■ Oracle Dataguard support

■ HP-UX Service Guard support for replicated environments

Commands which have changed:

■ sfua_db_config functionality is changed: this command is no longer needed

to create a SFDB repository. The functionality of sfua_db_config is now used

to set user and group access to various SFDB directories.

■ Use the dbed_update command to create a new SQLite SFDB repository.

■ sfua_rept_adm was used in 5.0 to perform repository backup and restore and

this command will be obsolete in 5.1 SP1.

■ The sfua_rept_util command is used to perform SQLite repository backup

and restore.

■ The Database Dynamic Storage Tiering (DBDST) feature is rebranded as

SmartTier for Oracle and includes expanded functionality to support

management of sub-file objects.

■ Cached ODM: functionality is expanded with Cache ODM Manager

Commands which continue to be supported:

■ dbed_update, dbed_rept_node

■ Database Storage Checkpoint commands: dbed_ckptcreate, dbed_ckptdisplay,

dbed_ckptmount, dbed_ckptquota, dbed_ckptremove, dbed_ckptrollback,

dbed_clonedb, dbed_ckptumount

Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes

Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1