Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0 Release Notes, First Edition

• Oracle Resilvering Support
Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager supports Oracle Resilvering. With Oracle
Resilvering, the storage layer receives information from the Oracle database as to which of
the regions or blocks of a mirrored datafile requires to be resynchronized after a system
crash.
• Enhanced CLI commands
The following Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle CLI commands have been enhanced:
Table 1-1 Enhanced SFO Commands
DescriptionCommand
Specify the modified initialization parameters
(contained in pfile_modification_file) for the
clone.
dbed_clonedb
Specify the modified initialization parameters
(contained in pfile_modification_file) for the
clone.
dbed_vmclonedb
Lists the disk on which the specified table resides and
how much space it consumes.
dbed_analyzer
Features not Supported
The following feature is no longer supported:
• VxDBA utility is no longer supported.
Product Licensing
Table 1-2 lists the SFO licenses and their description.
Table 1-2 Storage Management for Oracle Bundle
DescriptionBundle
HP OnlineJFS accelerator for Oracle (SFO)T2789CA
HP OnlineJFS accelerator for Oracle Premium (SFO Premium)T2790CA
Storage Foundation for Oracle Premium with Enterprise OET2792CA
Limitations of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle
The following software limitations exists for Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0:
• DBDST Limitations With non-English Filenames and Placement Class Names
DBDST does not work with non-English database filenames or non-English placement class
names, due to limitations in VxFS Dynamic Storage Tiering and VxVM volume tags. VxFS
Dynamic Storage Tiering, does not support placement of non-English filenames and VxVM
volume tag feature does not support non-English volume tag names.
• Spaces in Container Path Names are not Supported
This release does not support spaces in the container path names.
• Checkpoint Policies Cannot be Started From the GUI.
• Internet Explorer Security Setting Required for Web GUI
The security setting in the Internet Explorer browser must be set to medium or lower in
order for VEA Web GUI run to properly.
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