Section 1 Storage Foundation Concepts
Chapter 1 Introducing SF Oracle RAC
How SF Oracle RAC works (high-level perspective)
Section 2 Installing and upgrading Storage Foundation
Chapter 2 Preparing to install
SF Oracle RAC
Overview of Storage Foundation installation and configuration tasks
Preparing to install and configure Storage Foundation
Installing Storage Foundation and configuring its components
Installing Oracle RAC and creating Oracle RAC database
Setting up VCS to manage RAC resources
Setting up backup and recovery feature for Storage Foundation (optional)
About Storage Foundation component features
Typical Storage Foundation cluster setup
Performing pre-installation tasks
Gathering information to install and configure Storage Foundation
Information to install Storage Foundation packages
Information to configure Veritas Cluster Server component
Information to configure Storage Foundation clusters in secure mode
Information to add Storage Foundation users
Information to configure Cluster Management Console
cluster connector
Information to configure Cluster Management Console
Information to configure SMTP email notification
Information to configure SNMP trap notification
Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring Storage Foundation Software
Installing on an alternate root
Performing basic system checks
Configuring SF Oracle RAC Components
Configuring the cluster in secure mode
Adding Storage Foundation users
Configuring the Cluster Management Console
Configuring SMTP email notification
Configuring SNMP trap notification
Setting permissions for database administration
Starting SF Oracle RAC processes
Chapter 4 Upgrading Storage Foundation
Upgrading to SF 5.0 Oracle RAC
Section 3 Setting up Storage Foundation with Oracle 10g
Chapter 5 Preparing to Install Oracle 10g RAC
About Oracle 10g RAC in an SF Oracle RAC environment
About the location of ORACLE_HOME
Chapter 6 Installing Oracle 10g RAC
Chapter 7 Upgrading and migrating Oracle software
Chapter 8 Configuring Oracle 10g service groups
About VCS service group for Oracle 10g dependencies
Configuring CVM and Oracle Service Groups
Creating service groups using the configuration wizard
Chapter 9 Adding and removing cluster nodes for Oracle 10g
Adding a node to an Oracle 10g cluster
Checking system requirements for new node
Physically adding a new system to the cluster
Installing Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle RAC on the new system
Configuring LLT, GAB, VCSMM, and VXFEN drivers
Removing a node from an Oracle 10g cluster
Chapter 10 Uninstalling Storage Foundation from Oracle 10g systems
Stopping Applications Using CFS (Outside of VCS Control)
Unmounting VxFS File Systems (Outside of VCS Control)
Removing the Oracle Database (Optional)
Unlinking Veritas libraries from Oracle 10g binaries
Removing Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle RAC packages
Section 4 Backup and recovery
Chapter 11 Configuring the repository database for Oracle
Chapter 12 Using Checkpoints and Storage Rollback with Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle RAC
Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback concepts
Determining space requirements for Storage Checkpoints
Performance of Storage Checkpoints
Backing up and recovering the database using Storage Checkpoints
Chapter 13 Using database FlashSnap for backup and off-host processing
Solving typical database problems with Database FlashSnap
About Database FlashSnap applications
Planning to use Database FlashSnap
Preparing hosts and storage for Database FlashSnap
Creating a snapshot mirror of a volume or volume set used
by the database
Upgrading existing volumes to use Veritas Volume Manager 5.0
Summary of database snapshot steps
Creating a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)
Validating a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)
Displaying, copying, and removing a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)
Creating a snapshot (dbed_vmsnap)
Backing up the database from snapshot volumes (dbed_vmclonedb)
Cloning a database (dbed_vmclonedb)
Using Database FlashSnap to Clone a Database
Shutting Down the Clone Database and Unmounting File Systems
Section 5 Performance and troubleshooting
Chapter 14 Investigating I/O performance using storage mapping
Chapter 15 Troubleshooting Storage Foundation
Running scripts for engineering support analysis
SCSI reservation errors during bootup
vxfentsthdw fails when SCSI TEST UNIT READY command fails
vxfentsthdw fails when prior registration key exists on disk
Removing existing keys from disks
System panic prevents potential data corruption
How vxfen driver checks for pre-existing split brain condition
Case 1: nebula up, galaxy ejected (actual potential split brain)
Case 2: nebula down, galaxy ejected (apparent potential
split brain)
Section 6 Reference information
Appendix A Sample VCS configuration files for SF Oracle RAC
Appendix B Creating a starter database
Appendix C Agent reference
CVMVolDg and CFSMount resources
CVMVolDg agent type attribute descriptions
CVMVolDg agent type definition
Sample CVMVolDg agent configuration
CFSMount agent type, attribute descriptions
PrivNIC agent: monitor entry point
PrivNIC agent: type attribute descriptions
Appendix D I/O fencing topics
Initializing disks as VxVM disks
vxfentsthdw options and methods
General guidelines for using vxfentsthdw
Testing the coordinator disk group using vxfentsthdw -c
Appendix E Configuring the Symantec License Inventory Agent
About the Symantec License Inventory Manager
When the Symantec License Inventory Agent is installed
When the server and access points are installed
What you can do with the agent after it is installed
How to order the Symantec License
Inventory Manager license and media kit
Appendix F Tunable kernel driver parameters
Appendix G Error messages
LMX Error Messages, Non-Critical
VxVM Errors Related to I/O Fencing
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