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

For more information:
See the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Administrator's Guide.
See the lmxdbstat(1M) manual page.
Enhancements to VRTSexplorer utility
The VRTSexplorer utility includes enhancements to collect more logs, including
Oracle Clusterware and Oracle database log information.
Changes in the SF Oracle RAC documentation
This section provides a high-level list of the key changes in the Veritas Storage
Foundation for Oracle RAC Installation and Configuration Guide:
■ The sections "Oracle RAC 10g installation in an SF Oracle RAC environment"
and "Oracle RAC 11g installation in an SF Oracle RAC environment" are now
consolidated into a single section "Installing and configuring Oracle RAC".
The Oracle RAC chapters containing preparatory and installation instructions
are common for Oracle RAC 10g and Oracle RAC 11g. Differences in
instructions, wherever applicable, are indicated in the relevant steps.
The chapter formerly titled "Installing Oracle RAC 11g manually" is now placed
in the chapter "Installing Oracle RAC" and is re-titled as follows:
■ Installing Oracle Clusterware using the Oracle Universal Installer
■ Installing the Oracle RAC database using the Oracle Universal Installer
■ The minimum downtime upgrade procedure is revised for this release and is
now termed as "phased upgrade".
■ The list of SF Oracle RAC sample files that were reproduced in the appendix
of the guide is now replaced by service group configuration illustrations of
various scenarios and corresponding descriptions. The actual files can be
referenced at /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/sample_rac/.
No longer supported
This section lists software versions and features that are no longer supported.
Symantec advises customers to minimize the use of these features.
SF Oracle RAC does not support the following:
■ Dissimilar version upgrades of SF Oracle RAC components
For example, if you have SF Oracle RAC 4.1 installed with Oracle RAC 9i Release
2, you can not upgrade only VCS to version 5.1 Service Pack 1.
27Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Release Notes
No longer supported