Check category: Availability

Check description: Checks that packages installed across all the nodes in a cluster are consistent

Check procedure:

• Identifies the packages installed on all the nodess in a cluster.

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: Availability

Check description: Checks the quick I/O (QIO) license across all nodes in a single cluster to ensure that each node has the same QIO license feature.

Check procedure:

• Checks whether VxVM Volume Manager, Cluster Server (VCS), and Cluster File System (CFS) packages are installed on the system.

Check recommendation: The QIO/ODM license feature should be consistent across all nodes in the cluster.

Check category: Best practices

Check description: Checks whether the installed Storage Foundation / InfoScale products are at the latest software patch level.

Check procedure:

• Identifies all the Storage Foundation / InfoScale products installed on the system.

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:

• Checks if the VRTSodm pkg is present.

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.