Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Graphical User Interface Guide

How to choose appropriate stripe unit sizes ................................ 34
How to choose between mirroring and RAID-5 ............................. 34
Volume configuration guidelines .............................................. 35
File system creation guidelines ....................................................... 35
Controlling fragmentation ............................................................ 36
Fragmentation utilities in VxFS ................................................ 37
Types of fragmentation ........................................................... 37
Starting an Oracle database instance ............................................... 37
Starting an Oracle snapshot database instance .................................. 38
Shutting down an Oracle database instance ...................................... 39
Chapter 3 Using a clone database ...................................................... 41
Creating a clone database .............................................................. 41
Creating a clone database using Checkpoints ............................... 41
Creating a clone database using Database FlashSnap .................... 42
Creating a new snapplan for a clone database .............................. 43
Validating or modifying a snapplan for a clone database ............... 44
Creating snapshot for a clone database ...................................... 45
Start up snapshot for a clone database ....................................... 46
Create snapshot for clone database ............................................ 47
Removing a clone database ............................................................ 48
Removing a Storage Checkpoint clone database ........................... 48
Removing a database snapshot clone database ............................ 49
Chapter 4 Managing Storage Checkpoints ....................................... 51
About Storage Checkpoints ............................................................ 51
Creating a Storage Checkpoint ........................................................ 52
Viewing Storage Checkpoint details ................................................. 53
Mounting a Storage Checkpoint ...................................................... 53
Unmounting a Storage Checkpoint .................................................. 54
Removing a Storage Checkpoint ...................................................... 55
Rolling back to a Storage Checkpoint ............................................... 55
Rolling back the database to a Storage Checkpoint ....................... 56
Rolling back a tablespace to a Storage Checkpoint ........................ 57
Rolling back datafiles to a Storage Checkpoint ............................. 58
Chapter 5 Managing snapshots using Database
FlashSnap ....................................................................... 61
Database FlashSnap in the GUI ....................................................... 61
Creating a snapplan ...................................................................... 62
Validating or modifying a snapplan ................................................. 64
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