Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Technical Support ............................................................................................... 4
Chapter 1 Introducing Veritas Storage Foundation for
Oracle ............................................................................... 17
About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle .................................... 17
Components of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle .................. 18
How Veritas Volume Manager works ............................................... 20
About volumes ...................................................................... 22
About disk groups .................................................................. 23
About volume layouts ............................................................. 23
About online relayout ............................................................. 26
About volume resynchronization .............................................. 26
About dirty region logging ....................................................... 27
About SmartSync recovery accelerator ...................................... 27
About volume sets .................................................................. 27
About volume snapshots ......................................................... 27
About Veritas FastResync ........................................................ 28
About disk group split and join ................................................. 29
About hot-relocation .............................................................. 29
About DMP-supported disk arrays ............................................. 30
About dynamic LUN expansion ................................................. 30
About Storage Expert .............................................................. 30
About cluster functionality (optional) ........................................ 31
About Veritas Volume Replicator (optional) ................................ 31
How Veritas File System works ....................................................... 31
About Veritas Quick I/O .......................................................... 32
About Veritas Cached Quick I/O ................................................ 32
About Veritas Concurrent I/O ................................................... 32
About extent-based allocation .................................................. 33
About fast file system and database recovery .............................. 33
About online system administration .......................................... 33
About cross-platform data sharing ............................................ 34
Support for multi-volume file systems ....................................... 35
Support for large file systems and large files (optional) ................. 35
About Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback ......................... 35
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