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

See “Installing Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, or ODM patches

on SF Oracle RAC nodes” on page 80.

■ Applying operating system updates

See “Applying operating system updates” on page 81.

■ Determining the LMX traffic for each database

See “Determining the LMX traffic for each database” on page 82.

■ Adding storage to an SF Oracle RAC cluster

See “Adding storage to an SF Oracle RAC cluster” on page 84.

■ Recovering from storage failure

See “Recovering from storage failure” on page 85.

■ Enhancing the performance of SF Oracle RAC clusters

See “Enhancing the performance of SF Oracle RAC clusters” on page 86.

■ Creating snapshots for offhost processing

See “Creating snapshots for offhost processing” on page 86.

■ Managing database storage efficiently using SmartTier

See “Managing database storage efficiently using SmartTier” on page 87.

■ Optimizing database storage using Thin Provisioning and SmartMove

See “Optimizing database storage using Thin Provisioning and SmartMove”

on page 87.

■ Scheduling periodic health checks for your cluster

See “Scheduling periodic health checks for your cluster” on page 87.

■ Verifying the ODM port

See “Verifying the ODM port” on page 88.

■ Verifying the nodes in a cluster

See “Verifying the nodes in a cluster” on page 88.

If you encounter issues while administering SF Oracle RAC, refer to the

troubleshooting section for assistance.

Setting the environment variables

Set the MANPATH variable in the .profile file (or other appropriate shell setup

file for your system) to enable viewing of manual pages.

Based on the shell you use, type one of the following:

# MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/opt/VRTS/man

# export MANPATH

For sh, ksh, or bash

Administering SF Oracle RAC and its components

Administering SF Oracle RAC