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

About Oracle Disk Manager ............................................................ 57
How Oracle Disk Manager improves database performance ............ 58
About Oracle Disk Manager and Oracle Managed Files ........................ 60
How Oracle Disk Manager works with Oracle Managed Files .......... 61
About Cached ODM ...................................................................... 63
Considerations for using Cached ODM ....................................... 63
Supported configurations ........................................................ 64
About Cached ODM Manager .................................................... 64
Chapter 5 Improving database performance with Veritas
Extension for Oracle Disk Manager ........................... 65
Setting up Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager ........................ 65
Linking the Veritas extension for Oracle Disk Manager library
into Oracle home .............................................................. 66
Configuring Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager ...................... 67
How to prepare existing database storage for Oracle Disk Manager
........................................................................................... 68
Converting Quick I/O files to Oracle Disk Manager files ....................... 69
Verifying that Oracle Disk Manager is configured .............................. 69
Disabling the Oracle Disk Manager feature ....................................... 72
Chapter 6 Improving database performance with Veritas
Cached Oracle Disk Manager ...................................... 75
Configuring Cached ODM .............................................................. 75
Enabling Cached ODM for file systems ....................................... 76
Tuning Cached ODM settings for individual files .......................... 76
Tuning Cached ODM settings via the cachemap ........................... 77
Making the caching settings persistent across mounts .................. 78
Administering Cached ODM settings with Cached ODM
Manager ............................................................................... 79
Displaying the candidate files for Cached ODM ............................ 80
Enabling and disabling Cached ODM on datafiles ......................... 81
Display the Cached ODM states of the database files ..................... 83
Show Cached ODM statistics .................................................... 84
Displaying ODM I/O statistics ................................................... 85
Chapter 7 Improving database performance with Veritas Quick
I/O .................................................................................... 87
Creating database files as Quick I/O files using qiomkfile ..................... 88
Preallocating space for Quick I/O files using the setext
command ............................................................................. 90
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