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

■ Classify, or tag volumes so that the tags indicate the quality of the underlying
disk.
■ Display the free space on each class.
■ Add or remove volumes as necessary.
Note: SmartTier for Oracle is the expanded and renamed feature known as
Database Dynamic Storage Tiering (DBDST) in previous releases.
SmartTier for Oracle command requirements
Before defining your database parameters, review the following command
requirements:
■ Run the dbed_update command before running any of the SmartTier for Oracle
commands. You should also run the dbed_update command if any of the
database files change.
The repository must be up to date, since the SmartTier for Oracle commands
retrieve database information from the repository.
■ You do not need to set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use
the SFDB commands. However, if you set this environment variable for another
reason, Symantec recommends including the library path
/opt/VRTSdbed/common/lib before other library paths so the SFDB commands
do not mistakenly link with libraries with same name in the other library paths.
■ If you are using any of the SmartTier for Oracle commands in a high availability
(HA) environment, the time on each system in the cluster must be synchronized.
■ Create the volumes that you want to add to the multi-volume file system in
the same disk group as the file system volume. As root, use the following
command to change the owner of each volume:
# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxedit -g disk_group \
set user=oracle volume
■ Change the owner of the mount point on which you want to implement
SmartTier for Oracle to oracle.
Defining database parameters
Running the dbdst_admin command defines parameters for the entire database.
You must run this command at least once to define the database parameters for
SmartTier for Oracle. Three pre-defined storage classes will be created (PRIMARY,
SECONDARY, and BALANCE). Parameter values are stored in the SFDB repository.
Configuring and administering SmartTier
Configuring SmartTier for Oracle
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