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

■ Option hawizard -rac for configuring service groups

■ 32-bit Oracle architectures

■ Oracle RAC 9i, Oracle RAC 10g Release 1

■ Storage Checkpoint commands for checking and saving the configuration of

the Oracle RAC database: dbed_checkconfig, dbed_saveconfig

■ Use of crossover cables

Oracle does not support the use of crossover cables for cluster interconnects

due to the possibility of data corruption and other software limitations.

Note: Crossover cables are however known to function without any issues in

SF Oracle RAC. While the SF Oracle RAC Technical support team may continue

to provide support on related issues for existing deployments, this support

may be constrained in some respects as it is no longer a supported configuration

by Oracle.

The use of crossover cables is discouraged for new deployments.

■ Bunker replication is not supported in a Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)

environment.

Veritas Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools features which

are no longer supported

Commands which are no longer supported as of version 5.1:

■ ORAMAP (libvxoramap)

■ Storage mapping commands dbed_analyzer, vxstorage_stats

■ DBED providers (DBEDAgent), Java GUI, and dbed_dbprocli.

The SFDB tools features can only be accessed through the command line

interface. However, Veritas Operations Manager (a separately licensed product)

can display Oracle database information such as tablespaces, database to LUN

mapping, and tablespace to LUN mapping.

■ Storage statistics: commandsdbdst_makelbfs, vxdbts_fstatsummary,

dbdst_fiostat_collector, vxdbts_get_datafile_stats

■ dbed_saveconfig, dbed_checkconfig

■ dbed_ckptplan, dbed_ckptpolicy

■ qio_convertdbfiles -f option which is used to check for file fragmentation

Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Release Notes

No longer supported