Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Graphical User Interface Guide

To start an Oracle database instance or a cloned Oracle database instance

Access the Oracle Start Up Database wizard.

See “To access Oracle database wizards in the Java GUI” on page 23.

Enter the Oracle SID, Oracle home, and Owner information. Click Next to

continue.

Enter your password and optionally enter Oracle pfile information, then click

Start Database. The UNIX user name field is populated automatically and

the other fields on this screen are read-only.

At the confirmation prompt, click Yes to confirm that you want to start the

database.

If the Oracle database was successfully started, you will receive a confirmation

message. Click OK to continue.

Starting an Oracle snapshot database instance

If you created a snapshot using the Database FlashSnap feature, you can start an

Oraclesnapshot database from the secondary host. This is the equivalent of cloning

the database from the primary host. You must know the password of the instance

owner and there must be an existing snapshot.

See “Database FlashSnap in the GUI” on page 61.

■ Make sure you have enough space to create a clone database on

your system.

■ You must have an existing snapshot.

Prerequisites

To start an Oracle snapshot database instance

Access the Oracle Start Instance Start Up Snapshot Database wizard.

See “To access Oracle database wizards in the Java GUI” on page 23.

In the “connect as” section, enter the local Oracle home information. Then,

enter your UNIX user name and password.

For the primary database information section, enter the Oracle SID

information.

Create or restart the database by clicking the appropriate radio button:

■ Select Startup database to start a new snapshot database based on a

snapshot.

■ Select Restart databaseto restart an existing snapshot database.

Managing your database

Starting an Oracle snapshot database instance