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

Upgrade from Storage Foundation for Oracle to Storage Foundation 5.1

SP1.

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■ Migrate the SFDB repository database to version 5.1 SP1.

■ For upgrade and conversion procedures:

See Veritas Storage Foundation™ and High Availability Installation Guide

■ Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC:

■ Upgrade to Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 5.1 SP1.

■ Migrate the repository database to version 5.1 SP1.

■ For upgrade and conversion procedures:

See Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle RAC Installation and

Configuration Guide

Caution: If you are running Oracle version 11.1.0.6 and upgrading a Storage

Foundation product to 5.1SP1: upgrade the Oracle binaries and database to version

11.1.0.7 before moving to SP1.

Using SFDB tools after upgrading Oracle to 11.2.0.2

(2203228)

The procedure which Oracle recommends for upgrading to Oracle 11.2.0.2 results

in the database home changing. After you upgrade to Oracle 11.2.0.2, you must

run the dbed_updatecommand with the new Oracle home provided as an argument

to the -H option before using any SFDB tools. After this step, the SFDB tools can

be used normally.

Backing up and restoring the Storage Foundation for

Databases (SFDB) repository

The SFDB repository should be backed up frequently after significant changes

such as creating a new snapplan or creating checkpoints.

For the SFDB backup repository:

■ The same default location is used as for the SFDB repository.

■ The location can be specified by using the

-d directory option.

■ SFDB repositories for different databases must not share same backup location.

Administering Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools

Using SFDB tools after upgrading Oracle to 11.2.0.2 (2203228)