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

■ Storage Foundation for Cluster File (HA) System 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

■ 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

■ Quick I/O commands: qio_getdbfiles, qio_recreate, qio_convertdbfiles

qio_recreate,

qioadmin,qiostat,qio_convertdbfiles_ora,qio_getdbfiles_ora,qio_recreate_ora,

qiomkfile

■ Database Flashsnap commands: dbed_vmchecksnap, dbed_vmclonedb,

dbed_vmsnap

■ SmartTier for Oracle commands: dbdst_addvol, dbdst_admin, dbdst_classify,

dbdst_convert, dbdst_file_move, dbdst_partition_move,

Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Release Notes

Changes introduced in version 5.1 Service Pack 1