Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0 Release Notes, First Edition

1 Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle (SFO) 5.0 Release
Notes
This chapter describes the new features, licensing, system requirement, compatibility with
previous releases and known problems with the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0 on HP-UX
11i Version 2.
The following topics are discussed:
• “Product Description”
• “New Features”
• “Features not Supported”
• “Product Licensing”
• “System Requirement”
• “Compatibility With Previous Versions”
• “Known Problems And Workarounds”
Product Description
Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle (SFO) is a solution that enables powerful manageability,
offers optimum performance, and continuous access to Oracle databases. Veritas Storage
Foundation for Oracle is built on the industry leading volume management (VxVM) and file
system (VxFS) technologies from Symantec. Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle combines the
strengths of the core Veritas products with the database-specific enhancements to offer unrivaled
performance, availability and, manageability for databases.
New Features
The following new features are supported with Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0 on
HP-UX 11i v2:
• Database Dynamic Storage Tiering (DBDST)
Veritas Database Dynamic Storage Tiering (DBDST) enables you to manage your data, so
that less-frequently used data can be moved to slower, less expensive disks, and
frequently-accessed data can be stored on the faster disks for quicker retrieval. SFO version
5.0 supports the DBDST feature.
• Improved task scheduler for the Oracle GUI
The Oracle GUI for the task scheduler has been improved to provide more flexibility in
scheduling tasks. Using the task scheduler, you can create database checkpoints and also
schedule database flashsnap operations at given a time, or at certain time intervals.
• Support for Setting Clone Initialization Parameters
Clones can be created and started with customized initialization parameters to let clones
use system resources in a different way from the primary database.
• Enhanced Deep Mapping
Deep mapping has been enhanced to differentiate between EMC STD and BCV mirrors for
EMC arrays. The vxstorage_stats command can now display EMV STD and BCV mirrors.
• Table Level Mapping
A table name now can be used as input to the dbed_analyzer command. The new -o
mode=table [ -f file | -t table ] option, lists the disk on which the table resides
and the space it occupies on the disk.
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