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

Troubleshooting SFDB tools

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About troubleshooting Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools

■ About the vxdbd daemon

■ Troubleshooting Database FlashSnap

■ Troubleshooting SmartTier for Oracle

■ Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools from 5.0MP2

to 5.1SP1 (2003131)

■ Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools from 5.0.x

to 5.1SP1 (2184482)

■ Relinking ODM after upgrading from 5.0.x

■ Upgrading in an HP Serviceguard environment (2116455)

About troubleshooting Storage Foundation for

Databases (SFDB) tools

Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools are deployed with several Storage

Foundation products, and as a result can be affected by any issue with those

products. The first step in case of trouble should be to identify the source of the

problem. It is rare to encounter problems in Storage Foundation for Databases

(SFDB) tools; more commonly the problem can be traced to setup issues or problems

in the base products.

Use the information in this chapter to diagnose the source of problems. Indications

may point to base product set up or configuration issues, in which case solutions

may require reference to other Storage Foundation documentation. In cases where

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