Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Graphical User Interface Guide

■ The number of times you wish to sample the data. You can enter a value
from 0 to 9999.
■ The interval, in minutes, between sampling points. You can enter a value
from 0 to 9999.
The Total Sampling Period (in hours) displays the time used to perform the
sampling of the data.
The Display accumulated data checkbox is checked by default.
The Time Elapsed (in minutes) displays the amount of time it took to sample
the data. The progress status bar displays the percentage of sampling that is
being completed.
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After successful completion, a Confirmation dialog is displayed, indicating
that the data was successfully collected for the specified time. Click OK, to
continue.
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When you are finished, click Close.
Determining the datafile file type
You can view the datafile properties to determine if the datafile is a Quick I/O file,
an Oracle Disk Manager file, or a regular VxFS file.
To determine the datafile file type
1
Access the wizard for this task.
See “Accessing system maintenance tasks in the Java GUI” on page 29.
2
Click OK when you have finished viewing the datafile properties.
Converting Quick I/O files to regular datafiles
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle provides an option to convert your Quick
I/O files to regular Oracle datafiles. Use this option only if you are running
Oracle9i, 10g, 11g and VERITAS Extension for Oracle Disk Manager.
Files you want to convert must be Quick I/O
files on VxFS file systems or links that point
to Quick I/O files.
Prerequisites:
To convert Quick I/O files to regular datafiles
1
Shut down the database from the GUI.
2
Select the datafile in the GUI.
Maintaining your system configuration
Determining the datafile file type
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