Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Graphical User Interface Guide

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

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 “Tuning for Performance” in theCreate 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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