Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0 Graphical User Interface Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

Managing your database

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Database management tasks in the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle GUI

■ About setting up a disk group

■ About selecting a volume layout

■ File system creation guidelines

■ Controlling fragmentation

■ Starting an Oracle database instance

■ Starting an Oracle snapshot database instance

■ Shutting down an Oracle database instance

■ Restarting an Oracle database instance

Database management tasks in the Veritas Storage

Foundation for Oracle GUI

If you are using Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle to set up a new database,

complete these tasks in the order listed below:

See the Veritas File System Administrator's

Guide.

Determine the number and sizes of file

systems you need for the database you want

to create.

See “About selecting a volume layout”

on page 42.

See “Tuning for Performance” in the

Create volumes to meet your file system

needs. You can use disk mirroring as a

safeguard against disk failures and striping

for better performance.

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