HP 3PAR Recovery Manager 4.5.0 for Oracle on Solaris, Red Hat Linux, and Oracle Enterprise Linux User's Guide (QL226-97705, May 2014)

◦ Each OS disk can only have maximum one partition.
◦ For ext3/ext4 file systems, the journal devices should be within the same file systems
• Virtual volume snapshots used by an Oracle database must be mapped to a Common
Provisioning Group (CPG). Refer to the HP 3PAR Command Line Interface Administrator’s
Manual for details about mapping to CPGs.
• If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Recovery Manager for Oracle, do not use any
upgrade utilities provided by the system. Instead, use rmora_install.sh to perform the
upgrade.
• Refer to the HP 3PAR Implementation Guides for instructions on setting up connections from
hosts to the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems and reserving LUNs with specific Host Bus
Adapters (HBAs) and Multipath configurations.
• To use the Remote Copy feature, you must configure your HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems
for Remote Copy Software. The HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems must meet the requirements
specified in “Recovery Manager for Oracle’s Remote Copy Requirements” (page 123). For
instructions on configuring storage systems for Remote Copy Software, see the HP 3PAR Remote
Copy Software User’s Guide.
• To support Recovery Manager for Oracle on AIX virtualization environment (VIOS), AIX VIO
clients (LPAR/DLPAR) must be configured with N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) to provide direct
Fibre Channel connections from VIO clients to SAN Storage Server. SAN Storage Server can
be either direct attach or zoned using the switch for physical hosts. For VIO clients (LPAR's or
DLPAR's) storage, switch and Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) of the server must support NPIV feature
to be zoned.
In AIX, 32-bit applications can access only one segment (256 MB) of program data memory,
by default. Increase the amount of memory to 1.25 GB or an appropriate value: export
LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000 which is 1.25 GB of memory per process (5 segments
of 256 MB). To make this setting permanent, add LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x50000000 at
the end of the /etc/environment file.
NOTE: There is a maximum of 2 GB of memory per process for 32-bit applications
(0x80000000). Consult IBM's AIX documentation for more information.
In the following example, a VIO client is added on a VIO Server and a virtual FC adapter is
created and assigned to the client.
ibm710-vm1 / :-> lsdev -c adapter
ent0 Available Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
ent1 Available Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
fcs0 Available C3-T1 Virtual Fibre Channel Client Adapter
vscsi0 Available Virtual SCSI Client Adapter
ibm710-vm1 / :-> lscfg -vl fcs0 | | grep Address
Network Address.............C05076052C240002 << WWN of virtual adapter
The Storage array is zoned to the WWN's of virtual adapter on clients.
# showhost IBM710_01_VM1
Id Name Persona -WWN/iSCSI_Name- Port
31 IBM710_01_VM1 Generic C05076052C240002 1:2:4
C05076052C240002 0:2:4
NOTE: To get more information on how to configure NPIV for AIX VIOS, see IBM website:
http://www.ibm.com
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