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

■ Performing a rollback of the database from a given filesystem checkpoint
■ Performing storage tiering using SmartTier for Oracle
Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) is an option of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
that works as a fully integrated component of VxVM. VVR benefits from the
robustness, ease of use, and high performance of VxVM, and at the same time,
adds replication capability to VxVM.
VVR is able to:
■ Replicate existing VxVM configurations
■ Be transparently configured while the application is active
■ Replicate application writes on the volumes at the source location to one or
more remote locations across any distance
■ Provide a consistent copy of application data at the remote locations
If a disaster occurs at the source location, you can use the copy of the application
data at the remote location and restart the application at the remote location.
This section describes how to use SFDB tools at a remote VVR site.
For more information about how to setup and configure VVR replication for Oracle
database environment:
See the Veritas Volume Replicator Administrator's Guide
About SF Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools availability
architecture
Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools are easy to use and can be run by
database Administrators without root or system-admin privileges.
The SFDB tools consist of vxdbd daemon which starts at system startup, and a
repository for storing metadata required for SFDB commands. The SFDB tools
use the VCS framework to make the repository highly available. The SFDB tools
store Oracle and Storage Foundation configuration information in a repository.
The SFDB tools consist of vxdbd daemon which starts at system startup, and a
repository for storing metadata required for SFDB commands. The SFDB tools
use the cluster framework to make the repository highly available. The SFDB tools
store Oracle and Storage Foundation configuration information in a repository.
The SFDB repository information includes data about the Oracle database such
as:
■ Datafile and tablespace names
■ Volume snapshot information
Deploying Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools in a replicated environment
About deploying SF Databases tools with VVR
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