Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Managing the SFDB

repository

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About the SFDB repository

■ Runtime management tasks for the SFDB repository

■ Adding a new system to an HA configuration

■ Reconfiguring virtual IP address for repository configuration

■ Accessing an off-host repository in a non-VCS environment

About the SFDB repository

The Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository stores metadata

information required by Storage Foundation for Oracle software. This information

includes data about user databases, snapshot databases, storage configuration,

scheduled tasks, and storage statistics.

In prior releases of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle, the repository was

stored on the local host as plain text files, which made the repository vulnerable

to corruption or other errors. Also, repository information could not be accessed

from a secondary host.

In this release of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle, the repository is stored

in a relational database and is managed by a lightweight embedded relational

DBMS, called VxDBMS. VxDBMS is a special OEM version of a Sybase ASA

(Adaptive Server Anywhere) DBMS, which is delivered and supported by Symantec.

The SFDB repository database consists of a database file, dbed_db.db, and

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