HP Storage Management for Oracle 5.0.1 Release Notes

1 HP Storage Management for Oracle (SMO) 5.0.1 Release
Notes
This chapter discusses new features, licenses, system requirements, compatibility with previous
releases, and known problems with HP Storage Management for Oracle 5.0.1 which is supported
on systems running HP-UX 11i v3.
The chapter addresses the following topics:
• “Overview”
• “New Features”
• “System Requirements”
• “SMO Licenses”
• “Features Not Supported in Future Releases”
• “Limitations of HP Storage Management for Oracle” (page 10)
• “Known Problems And Workarounds”
Overview
Storage Management for Oracle (SMO) is a product that enables powerful manageability, offers
optimum performance, and continuous access to Oracle databases. SMO is built on the industry
leading Veritas™ Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas™ File System (VxFS) technologies from
Symantec. The SMO product combines the strengths of the core Veritas products with the
database-specific enhancements to offer unrivaled performance, availability, and manageability
for databases.
New Features
HP Storage Management for Oracle 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3 supports the following new features:
• Support for Oracle™ 11g Database
Starting with 5.0.1, HP Storage Management for Oracle includes support for the Oracle 11g
database. Following are the features supported by the Oracle 11g database:
— Storage Checkpoints
— Storage mapping
— Database cloning (clonedb)
— Database Flashsnap
— Tiered storage for databases (DBDST)
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