Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 for Oracle RAC Release Notes (5900-1513, April 2011)

Note: The disk group version must be at least 160 to create and use the cdsdisk
format on disks of size greater than 1 TB.
Support for intelligent monitoring of VCS resources using IMF
VCS now supports intelligent resource monitoring in addition to poll-based
monitoring. Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF) is an extension to the VCS
agent framework. You can enable or disable the intelligent monitoring functionality
of VCS agents as needed.
The benefits of intelligent monitoring over poll-based monitoring are as follows:
■ Faster notification of resource state changes.
■ Reduction in VCS system utilization which enables VCS to effectively monitor
a large number of resources.
See the Veritas Cluster Server Administrator's Guide for more information.
The following agents are IMF-aware in VCS 5.1 SP1:
■ Mount
■ Process
■ Application
■ Oracle
■ Netlsnr
■ CFSMount
■ CVMVxconfigd
■ CFSfsckd
Support for 16 nodes in a cluster
SF Oracle RAC now supports 16 nodes in a cluster.
Support for Oracle RAC 11g Release 2
SF Oracle RAC now supports Oracle RAC 11g Release 2.
Changes related to Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
New features for Storage Foundation for Databases tools package for database
storage management:
23Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Release Notes
Changes introduced in version 5.1 Service Pack 1