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

tables and the qio_convertdbfiles command to convert this list of database files
to use Quick I/O.
Note: It is recommended that you create a Storage Checkpoint before converting
to or from Quick I/O.
See “Creating Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptcreate” on page 212.
Before converting database files to Ouick I/O files, the following conditions must
be met:
■ Log in as the Database Administrator (typically, the user ID
oracle) to run the qio_getdbfiles and qio_convertdbfiles
commands.
■ You must predefine the Oracle environment variable
$ORACLE_SID. Change to the ORACLE_SID environment variable
must be defined.
■ Files you want to convert must be regular files on VxFS file systems
or links that point to regular VxFS files
Prerequisites
93Improving database performance with Veritas Quick I/O
Converting Oracle files to Quick I/O files