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Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC packages

Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC is a licensed product. The Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Installation and Configuration Guide describes how to obtain a license that applies for Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, and Veritas Cluster Server.

Software installed for Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC

The software components installed by the Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle RAC installation utility, installsfrac, include:

• Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
• Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
• Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
• Veritas Group Lock Manager
• Veritas File System (VxFS)
• Veritas extension for Oracle Disk Manager (ODM)
• Veritas Cluster Server agent for Oracle

Upgrading the SFDB repository

After you have completed the SF Oracle RAC upgrade, if you plan to use the commands for Checkpoints, FlashSnap, or Storage Mapping, you must:

• Change permissions
• Upgrade the repository

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    Note   Do not recursively change permissions, groups, or owners.

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 To change permissions

1. Change permissions for the following directory:

   For Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle:

   # chmod 750 /opt/VRTSdbed

2. Reset owner and group settings to the appropriate owner and group for the database administrators on your system.

   For example, to change owner to the user oracle and the group dba, run the following command:

   # chown oracle:dba /opt/VRTSdbed

 To upgrade the repository in a cluster environment

1. Unconfigure the SFUA repository from the VCS configuration:

   # /opt/VRTSdbcom/bin/sfua_db_config -o unconfig_cluster

2. Mount the repository file system manually.
3. Run the repository upgrade command again with no options:

   # /opt/VRTSdbcom/bin/sfua_db_config