Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 for Oracle RAC Administrator"s Guide (5900-1512, April 2011)

Chapter 2 Administering SF Oracle RAC and its
components .................................................................... 73
Administering SF Oracle RAC ......................................................... 73
Setting the environment variables ............................................. 74
Starting or stopping SF Oracle RAC on each node ......................... 75
Applying Oracle patches .......................................................... 79
Installing Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, or ODM
patches on SF Oracle RAC nodes ......................................... 80
Applying operating system updates ........................................... 81
Determining the LMX traffic for each database ............................ 82
Adding storage to an SF Oracle RAC cluster ................................ 84
Recovering from storage failure ................................................ 85
Enhancing the performance of SF Oracle RAC clusters .................. 86
Creating snapshots for offhost processing .................................. 86
Managing database storage efficiently using SmartTier ................ 87
Optimizing database storage using Thin Provisioning and
SmartMove ..................................................................... 87
Scheduling periodic health checks for your cluster ....................... 87
Verifying the ODM port ........................................................... 88
Verifying the nodes in a cluster ................................................ 88
Administering VCS ....................................................................... 91
Viewing available Veritas device drivers ..................................... 92
Loading Veritas drivers into memory ......................................... 93
Verifying VCS configuration .................................................... 93
Starting and stopping VCS ....................................................... 93
Environment variables to start and stop VCS modules .................. 93
Adding and removing LLT links ................................................ 95
Configuring aggregated interfaces under LLT .............................. 99
Displaying the cluster details and LLT version for LLT links ......... 101
Configuring destination-based load balancing for LLT ................. 102
Enabling and disabling intelligent resource monitoring for agents
manually ...................................................................... 102
Administering the AMF kernel driver ....................................... 104
Administering I/O fencing ........................................................... 105
About administering I/O fencing ............................................. 106
About the vxfentsthdw utility ................................................. 106
About the vxfenadm utility .................................................... 114
About the vxfenclearpre utility ............................................... 119
About the vxfenswap utility ................................................... 122
Enabling or disabling the preferred fencing policy ...................... 131
Administering the CP server ......................................................... 133
About the CP server user types and privileges ............................ 133
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