Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Introducing Veritas Storage

Foundation for Oracle

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle

■ How Veritas Volume Manager works

■ How Veritas File System works

■ How Veritas Storage Mapping works

■ How Veritas Database FlashSnap works

■ How Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager works

■ How Database Dynamic Storage Tiering works

■ About the vxdbd daemon

■ About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle graphical user interface

■ About Veritas NetBackup (optional)

■ About Veritas Storage Foundation/High Availability for Oracle (optional)

About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle

There are two versions of this product:

■ Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Standard Edition

■ Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Enterprise Edition

The Enterprise Edition contains everything in the Standard Edition plus Storage

Mapping, Database FlashSnap, Storage Checkpoints, and Storage Rollback.

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