Veritas™ Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
Custom Reports Using Data Collectors
Product: Storage Foundation Cluster File System
Platform: Linux
Product version: 5.1
Product component: Oracle Disk Manager
Check category: All
Check category: Availability
Check description: Checks whether the ODM is configured in cluster mode.
Check procedure:
Check recommendation: It is recommended to configure ODM in cluster mode for SF Oracle RAC.
Check category: Availability
Check description: Checks if Oracle libraries are properly linked.
Check procedure:
Check recommendation: It is recommended that on SF Oracle RAC, Oracle-provided libraries libskgxn, libskgxp (Oracle 10g only), and libodm should be linked with Veritas-provided libraries.
Check category: Availability
Check description: Checks that packages installed across all the nodes in a cluster are consistent
Check procedure:
Check recommendation: Ensure that packages installed on all the nodes in a cluster are consistent and package versions are identical. Inconsistent packages can cause errors in application fail-over.
Check category: Best practices
Check description: Checks whether the installed Storage Foundation / InfoScale products are at the latest software patch level.
Check procedure:
Check recommendation: To avoid known risks or issues, it is recommended that you install the latest versions of the Storage Foundation / InfoScale products on the system.
Check category: Performance
Check description: Checks whether or not the Oracle database is using Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) for the VxFS File System. ODM is an API jointly developed by Oracle and Veritas. ODM improves Oracle database performance on file systems.
Check procedure:
Check recommendation: You can use the ODM Extension for VxFS File System to provide better I/O performance to applications using Oracle9i or later. This feature is recommended over the Quick IO (QIO) or Concurrent IO (CIO) features for file system. As of now, this check does not check for QIO/CIO usage.