HP Storage Management for Oracle 5.0 Release Notes, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

1 HP Storage Management for Oracle (SMO) 5.0 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 which is supported on
systems running HP-UX 11i v3.
The chapter addresses the following topics:
• “Overview”
• “New Features”
• “Unsupported Features”
• “SMO Licenses”
• “System Requirements”
• “Compatibility With Earlier Versions”
• “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 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 on HP-UX 11i v3 supports the following features:
• Database Dynamic Storage Tiering (DBDST)
Database Dynamic Storage Tiering (DBDST) enables you to manage your data, so that
less-frequently used data can be moved to slower, less expensive disks, and
frequently-accessed data can be stored on the faster disks for quicker retrieval.
• Improved Task Scheduler for the SMO GUI
The SMO GUI for the task scheduler is improved to provide more flexibility in scheduling
tasks. Using the task scheduler, you can create database checkpoints and schedule database
flashsnap operations at a given time, or at specific time intervals.
• Support for Setting Clone Initialization Parameters
Clones can be created and started with customized initialization parameters to allow clones
use system resources differently from that of the primary database.
• Enhanced Deep Mapping
Deep mapping is enhanced to differentiate between EMC STD and BCV mirrors for EMC
arrays. The vxstorage_stats command now displays EMV STD and BCV mirrors.
• Table Level Mapping
You can now use a table name as input for the dbed_analyzer command. The new -o
mode=table [ -f file | -t table ] option displays the disk on which the table
resides and the space it occupies on the disk.
• Support for Oracle Resilvering
Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager supports Oracle Resilvering. With Oracle
Resilvering, the storage layer receives information from the Oracle database on regions or
blocks of a mirrored datafile that must be resynchronized after a system crash.
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