Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1: Storage and Availability Management for Oracle (5900-1504, April 2011)
■ Not supported for Oracle RAC environments
Database FlashSnap significantly reduces the time it takes to backup your database,
increase the availability of your production database, and still maintain your
production database’s performance.
Database FlashSnap requirements
The following are requirements for using Database FlashSnap:
■ You must have a Storage Foundation Enterprise product installed on all systems
on which you intend to use Database FlashSnap.
■ To use Database FlashSnap, you must first configure the volumes used by the
database. You must set the ORACLE_SID to your SID name.
Solving typical database problems with Database FlashSnap
Database FlashSnap allows database administrators to create a snapshot without
root privileges.
Database FlashSnap is designed to enable you to use database snapshots to
overcome the following types of problems encountered in enterprise database
environments:
■ In many companies, there is a clear separation between the roles of system
administrators and database administrators. Creating database snapshots
typically requires superuser (root) privileges, privileges that database
administrators do not usually have.
■ In some companies, database administrators are granted root privileges, but
managing storage is typically neither central to their job function nor their
core competency.
■ Creating database snapshots is a complex process, especially in large
configurations where thousands of volumes are used for the database. One
mistake can render the snapshots useless.
Because root privileges are not required, Database FlashSnap overcomes these
obstacles by enabling database administrators to easily create consistent snapshots
of the database. The snapshots can be utilized for repetitive use.
How Veritas Database FlashSnap works
Veritas Database FlashSnap is a feature included with Veritas Storage Foundation
Enterprise products. It is also a separately licensed option available with Veritas
Storage Foundation Standard products.
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