Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Before using dbed_ckptplan to manage the Capacity Planning utility, note the
following:
■ The dbed_ckptplan command is used to obtain estimates on space usage for
Storage Checkpoints. It obtains estimates by managing scheduled Storage
Checkpoint creation and summarizing statistics from these Storage
Checkpoints. You can only use the Storage Checkpoint Capacity Planning
Utility in an environment that contains no Storage Checkpoints created by
other tools or products.
■ See the dbed_ckptplan(1M), cron(1M), and crontab(1M) manual pages for
more information.
To start the Storage Checkpoint Capacity Planning utility
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Use the dbed_ckptplancommand as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptplan
The Storage Checkpoint Capacity Planning utility starts up and displays the
associated operations:
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle (ORACLE_SID 'PROD')
Menu: Storage Checkpoint Capacity Planning
1 Create Capacity Planning Schedules
2 Display Capacity Planning Schedules
3 Display Space Usage Information
4 Remove Capacity Planning Schedules
? Display Help About the Current Menu
q Exit From Current Menu
x Exit From Capacity Planning Utility
Select Operation to Perform:
Cloning the Oracle instance using dbed_clonedb
You can use the dbed_clonedb command to clone an Oracle instance using a
Storage Checkpoint in either a Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle or Veritas
Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC environment.
In a Veritsa Storage Foundation for Oracle environment, cloning an existing
database using a Storage Checkpoint must be done on the same host. In a Veritas
Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC environment, cloning an existing database
can be done on any node within the RAC database cluster. The clone database is
343Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Command Line Interface
About the command line interface