About deploying SF Databases tools with VVR


About deploying SF Databases tools with VVR
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Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) extends the strengths of the Storage Foundation Enterprise products with database-specific enhancements to offer performance, availability, and manageability for Oracle database servers. SFDB tools provide the means for:

Enhanced IO methods such as Quick IO, Cached Quick IO, ODM, and Cached ODM, which enhance database performance
Taking point-in-time copies filesystem checkpoints and Volume Snapshots
Creating a clone database from volume snapshots
Performing a rollback of the database from a given filesystem checkpoint
Performing storage tiering using Database Dynamic Storage Tiering (DBDST)

Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) is an option of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) that works as a fully integrated component of VxVM. VVR benefits from the robustness, ease of use, and high performance of VxVM, and at the same time, adds replication capability to VxVM.

VVR is able to:

Replicate existing VxVM configurations
Be transparently configured while the application is active
Replicate application writes on the volumes at the source location to one or more remote locations across any distance
Provide a consistent copy of application data at the remote locations

If a disaster occurs at the source location, you can use the copy of the application data at the remote location and restart the application at the remote location. This section describes how to use SFDB tools at a remote VVR site.

For more information about how to setup and configure VVR replication for Oracle database environment:

See the Veritas Volume Replicator Administrator's Guide