Veritas Storage Foundation and HA Solution Getting Started Guide

Veritas File System is a high performance journaling file system that provides
easy management and quick-recovery for applications. Veritas File System delivers
scalable performance, continuous availability, increased I/O throughput, and
structural integrity.
Veritas Volume Manager removes the physical limitations of disk storage. You
can configure, share, manage, and optimize storage I/O performance online
without interrupting data availability. Veritas Volume Manager also provides
easy-to-use, online storage management tools to reduce downtime.
VxFS and VxVM are included in all Veritas Storage Foundation products. If you
have purchased a Veritas Storage Foundation product, VxFS and VxVM are
installed and updated as part of that product. Do not install or update them as
individual components.
Veritas Storage Foundation has the following products:
■ Storage Foundation Standard
■ Storage Foundation Enterprise
The Veritas products table lists the optionally licensed features available with
each Storage Foundation version.
Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle
Before you install this product, complete the following tasks:
■ Read the product release notes.
■ Review the preliminary information.
■ Follow the instructions in the Storage Foundation Installation Guide.
These documents are located at the following directories in the release media.
storage_foundation/docs/sf_notes.pdf
storage_foundation/docs/sf_install.pdf
About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle®
Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle® by Symantec is an integrated set of system
software enhancements and configuration guidelines. The enhancements and
guidelines help Oracle database administrators configure a database system with
high performance, availability, manageability, and reliability.
11Product overview
Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle