The Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository stores metadata information required by Storage Foundation for DB2 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 DB2, 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 DB2, 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 transaction log files, yymmddxx.log. VxDBMS supports remote client access from any host in the network that has proper authorization and configuration.

SFDB requires only occasional interaction outside of the initial installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2.

See the Veritas Storage Foundation Installation Guide for more information on configuring the SFDB repository.