Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

online transaction processing 25, 78
options
largefiles and nolargefiles 35
Oracle
autoextend feature 97
media recovery 175
recovery 174
Recovery Manager (RMAN) 393
Oracle configuration environment
saving 326
Oracle datafile header size 80
Oracle Disk Manager 119
benefits 120
converting Quick I/O files 129
disabling 132
migrating files to 129
preparing existing databases for use with 128
restoring files using NetBackup 297, 394
setting up 125
Oracle Enterprise Manager 147
Oracle Managed Files 122
working with Oracle Disk Manager 123
Oracle tempfiles
recreating 285
overview
of Quick I/O 32
P
parallel data transfer
using striping for 24
PARALLEL_MAX_SERVERS 312
PARALLEL_MIN_SERVERS 312
parameters
default 303
tunable 303
tuning 303
parity 25
performance
obtaining statistics for volumes 300
RAID-5 25
tuning
for databases 312
performance data
using 309
performance tuning
list of guides 299
persistence
for Cached Quick I/O settings 112
persistent FastResync 28
persistent snapshot 35
planning space for Storage Checkpoints 210
PREADs 110
preallocating space for Quick I/O files 78, 82
Q
qio_cache_enable flag
disabling 105
enabling 105
qio_cache_enable tunable parameter 306
qio_convertdbfiles command 85, 89, 319
qio_getdbfiles command 85, 88, 319
qio_recreate command 319, 371, 390
qioadmin command 111
qiomkfile command 94, 96–97, 395
options for creating files
symbolic links 79
qiostat
output of 109
qiostat command 108, 308–309
Quick I/O
accessing regular VxFS files as 83
benefits 76
converting files to 89
converting files to Oracle Disk Manager 129
determining file fragmentation before
converting 87
determining status 94
disabling 99
enabling 78
extending files 94
extending files with autoextend 97
extracting file list for conversion 88
improving database performance with 76
list file for conversion 88
naming convention for files 78
overview 32
performance improvements 103
performance tuning for 315
preallocating space for files 78, 82
recreating files 371, 390
requirements 77
showing resolution to a raw device 94
using relative and absolute pathnames 84
quotas 36
R
RAID 23
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