Veritas extension for Oracle Disk Manager
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Veritas extension for Oracle Disk Manager

The Veritas extension for Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) is specifically designed for Oracle9i or later to enhance file management and disk I/O throughput. The features of Oracle Disk Manager are best suited for databases that reside in a Veritas File System. Oracle Disk Manager allows Oracle9i or later users to improve database throughput for I/O intensive workloads with special I/O optimization.

The Veritas extension for Oracle Disk Manager is supported in non-global zones. To run Oracle 10g on a non-global zone and use Oracle Disk Manager, the Oracle software version must be 10.1.0.3 or higher.

Care must be taken when installing and removing packages and patches when working with the VRTSodm package, for more information refer to the following:

The following procedure enables Oracle Disk Manager file access from non-global zones with Veritas File System.

To enable Oracle Disk Manager file access from non-global zones with Veritas File System

  1. Make global zone licenses visible to the non-global zone by exporting the /etc/vx/licenses/lic directory to the non-global zone as a lofs:

      global# zonecfg -z myzone
  zonecfg:myzone> add fs
  zonecfg:myzone:fs> set dir=/etc/vx/licenses/lic
  zonecfg:myzone:fs> set special=/etc/vx/licenses/lic
  zonecfg:myzone:fs> set type=lofs
  zonecfg:myzone:fs> end
  zonecfg:myzone> commit

  2. Create the /dev/odm directory in the non-global zonepath from the global zone:

      global# mkdir -p myzonepath/dev/odm

  3. Log in to the non-global zone and mount /dev/odm either manually or use the startup script. Use one of the following:

    • global# zlogin myzone
myzone# mount -F odm /dev/odm /dev/odm

      Or:

    • global# zlogin myzone
myzone# /lib/svc/method/odm start
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