Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Using the Space Capacity

Planning Utility for Storage

Checkpoints

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About planning file system space for Storage Checkpoints

■ Starting the Storage Checkpoint Capacity Planning utility

■ Creating Capacity Planning schedules

■ Displaying Capacity Planning schedules

■ Displaying file system space usage information

■ Removing Capacity Planning schedules

About planning file system space for Storage

Checkpoints

This is the last major release of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle to support

the Space Capacity Planning utility. The Storage Checkpoint Capacity Planning

Utility helps you plan for adequate file system space needed for Storage

Checkpoints.

VxFS file systems need extra disk space to store Storage Checkpoints. Because

VxFS can remove Storage Checkpoints when a file system runs out of space, it is

important to ensure that you have adequate space for Storage Checkpoints. The

extra space needed depends on how the Storage Checkpoints are used, the number

of VxFS changed blocks recorded in the Storage Checkpoints, the frequency with

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