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

■ When cloning a database using Database FlashSnap, the Oracle database must
have at least one mandatory archive destination. For more information about
Oracle parameters for archiving redo logs, see your Oracle documentation.
■ Only online snapshots are supported for an Oracle RAC database, when using
the dbed_vmsnap, dbed_vmclonedb, and dbed_vmchecksnap commands.
■ After running dbed_vmsnap -o reverse_resync_commit, your primary
database is started using a pfile. If your original primary database used an
spfile, you need to shut down the database and restart it using spfile. Then,
run dbed_update to update the repository.
■ The Storage Checkpoint and Database FlashSnap features of SF Oracle RAC
do not support the graphical user interface of the Veritas Storage Foundation
for Oracle product.
■ The Database FlashSnap feature does not support RAID-5 volumes.
■ SF Oracle RAC does not support the Veritas FlashSnap agent for Symmetrix
(EMC TimeFinder) mapping functionality (package:VRTSfas).
Documentation errata
The following sections cover additions or corrections for Document version:
5.1SP1.0 of the product documentation. These additions or corrections may be
included in later versions of the product documentation that can be downloaded
from the Symantec Support website and the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools
(SORT).
See the corresponding Release Notes for documentation errata related to that
component or product.
See “Documentation” on page 56.
See “About Symantec Operations Readiness Tools” on page 10.
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