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

See “Database FlashSnap in the GUI”
on page 73.
If you plan to create volume snapshots for
the database and use them on either the
same host or a secondary one, ensure that
your volume layout is consistent with
Database FlashSnap requirements.
See “File system creation guidelines”
on page 44.
Create the VxFS file systems you need on the
volumes
See the Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2
Administrator's Guide.
Install and configure your database.
For best OLTP performance, use Quick I/O.
You must create Quick I/O files before
creating the tablespaces.
Note: The Quick I/O feature is not available
on the Linux operating system.
See “Viewing Storage Mapping” on page 111.If you would like the ability to view detailed
storage stack topology information to ensure
your storage stack configuration is optimized
for the database, configure and use Storage
Mapping.
See “Converting regular datafiles to Quick
I/O Files” on page 112.
If you are using Quick I/O, convert all
database files to Quick I/O files.
See the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle
Administrator's Guide.
If using ODM, link the ODM library.
See the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle
OracleInstallation Guide.
See the Veritas Storage Foundation forOracle
Administrator's Guide.
If you are not currently running on VxVM
and VxFS, make sure Veritas Storage
Foundation for Oracle is installed and covert
your existing database configuration.
See “Creating a Storage Checkpoint”
on page 64.
For backup and recovery on the same host,
you can use the Storage Checkpoint facility
to create file system snapshots of the
database. A Storage Checkpoint creates an
exact image of a database instantly and
provides a consistent image of the database
from the point in time the Storage
Checkpoint was created.
Managing your database
Database management tasks in the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle GUI
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