Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

About restoring file systems using Storage Checkpoints ................ 36
About quotas ......................................................................... 36
About cluster functionality (optional) ........................................ 37
How Veritas Storage Mapping works ............................................... 37
How Veritas Database FlashSnap works ........................................... 38
How Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager works ....................... 39
How Database Dynamic Storage Tiering works .................................. 39
About the vxdbd daemon .............................................................. 40
About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle graphical user
interface ............................................................................... 41
About Veritas NetBackup (optional) ................................................. 42
How block-level incremental backup works ................................. 42
About Veritas Storage Foundation/High Availability for Oracle
(optional) .............................................................................. 43
Chapter 2 Setting up databases .......................................................... 45
Tasks for setting up new databases .................................................. 45
About setting up a disk group ......................................................... 47
Disk group configuration guidelines ......................................... 47
Creating a disk group ................................................................... 48
Adding disks to a disk group ........................................................... 50
About selecting a volume layout ..................................................... 51
How to choose appropriate stripe unit sizes ................................ 51
How to choose between mirroring and RAID-5 ............................. 52
Volume configuration guidelines .............................................. 52
Creating a volume ....................................................................... 53
Creating a volume set ................................................................... 54
Adding a volume to a volume set .................................................... 55
File system creation guidelines ....................................................... 55
Creating a VxFS file system ........................................................... 56
Large file system and large file support ...................................... 58
Multi-volume support ............................................................. 58
Mounting a file system ................................................................. 59
Unmounting a file system ............................................................. 60
About fragmentation ................................................................... 61
How to control fragmentation .................................................. 61
Types of fragmentation ........................................................... 61
How to monitor fragmentation ................................................. 62
Defragmenting a file system ..................................................... 62
Resizing a file system ................................................................... 64
Resizing a file system and the underlying volume ........................ 65
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