Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1: Storage and Availability Management for Oracle (5900-1504, April 2011)

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Veritas Storage Foundation database management features
UsesFeature
■ To improve Oracle performance and manage system
bandwidth through an improved Application
Programming Interface (API) that contains advanced
kernel support for file I/O, use Veritas Oracle Disk
Manager (ODM).
■ To reduce the time required to restore consistency,
freeing more I/O bandwidth for business-critical
applications, use SmartSync recovery accelerator.
■ To use Oracle Resilvering and turn off Veritas Volume
Manager Dirty Region Logging (DRL) to increase
performance, use ODM.
■ To enable selected I/O to use caching to improve ODM
I/O performance, use Veritas Extension for Cached
Oracle Disk Manager (Cached ODM).
■ To achieve raw device performance for databases run
on Veritas File System file systems, providing the
administrative advantages of using file systems without
the performance penalties, use Veritas Quick I/O.
■ To further enhance Oracle database performance by
leveraging large system memory to selectively buffer
the frequently accessed data, use Veritas Cached Quick
I/O.
Enhanced I/O methods enable
you to improve database
performance:
■ Veritas Extension for
Oracle Disk Manager
■ Veritas Extension for
Cached Oracle Disk
Manager
■ SmartSync
■ Veritas Quick I/O
■ Veritas Cached Quick I/O
■ To optimize the use of Thin Storage on new volumes,
initialize the volumes using Thin Provisioning.
■ To optimize storage administration by reclaiming space
deleted or shrunk on the Veritas Volume Manager
volume or the Veritas File System file system, use Thin
Reclamation.
■ To optimize the use of Thin Storage for Veritas Volume
Manager volumes on Veritas File System , use
SmartMove to enable copy operations to move only
used blocks.
Thin Provisioning supports
the use of Thin Storage for
your data:
■ Thin Provisioning
■ Thin Reclamation
■ SmartMove
See the Veritas Storage
Foundation Advanced
Features Guide
Overview of Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
About Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools for Oracle
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