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

Chapter 2 Managing your database
Database management tasks in the Veritas Storage Foundation for
Oracle GUI ............................................................................ 39
About setting up a disk group ......................................................... 41
Disk group configuration guidelines .......................................... 41
About selecting a volume layout ...................................................... 42
How to choose appropriate stripe unit sizes ................................. 42
How to choose between mirroring and RAID-5 ............................. 43
Volume configuration guidelines .............................................. 43
File system creation guidelines ....................................................... 44
Controlling fragmentation ............................................................. 45
Fragmentation utilities in VxFS ................................................. 45
Types of fragmentation ........................................................... 45
Starting an Oracle database instance ............................................... 46
Starting an Oracle snapshot database instance .................................. 46
Shutting down an Oracle database instance ....................................... 47
Restarting an Oracle database instance ............................................ 49
Chapter 3 Using a clone database
Creating a clone database .............................................................. 51
Creating a clone database using Checkpoints ............................... 51
Creating a clone database using Database FlashSnap .................... 52
Creating a new snapplan for a clone database .............................. 53
Validating or modifying a snapplan for a clone database ................ 54
Creating snapshot for a clone database ....................................... 55
Start up snapshot for a clone database ....................................... 57
Create snapshot for clone database ............................................ 58
Removing a clone database ............................................................ 59
Removing a Storage Checkpoint clone database ........................... 60
Removing a database snapshot clone database ............................. 60
Chapter 4 Managing Storage Checkpoints
About Storage Checkpoints ............................................................ 63
Creating a Storage Checkpoint ........................................................ 64
Viewing Storage Checkpoint details ................................................. 65
Mounting a Storage Checkpoint ...................................................... 65
Unmounting a Storage Checkpoint .................................................. 66
Removing a Storage Checkpoint ...................................................... 67
Rolling back to a Storage Checkpoint ................................................ 68
Rolling back the database to a Storage Checkpoint ........................ 68
Rolling back a tablespace to a Storage Checkpoint ........................ 70
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