Veritas InfoScale™ 8.0.2 Storage and Availability Management for Oracle Databases - AIX, Linux, Solaris
- Section I. Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) management solutions for Oracle databases
- Overview of Storage Foundation for Databases
- About Veritas File System
- Overview of Storage Foundation for Databases
- Section II. Deploying Oracle with Veritas InfoScale products
- Deployment options for Oracle in a Storage Foundation environment
- Deploying Oracle with Storage Foundation
- Setting up disk group for deploying Oracle
- Creating volumes for deploying Oracle
- Creating VxFS file system for deploying Oracle
- Deploying Oracle in an off-host configuration with Storage Foundation
- Deploying Oracle with High Availability
- Deploying Oracle with Volume Replicator (VVR) for disaster recovery
- Deployment options for Oracle in a Storage Foundation environment
- Section III. Configuring Storage Foundation for Database (SFDB) tools
- Configuring and managing the Storage Foundation for Databases repository database
- Configuring the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools repository
- Configuring authentication for Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
- Configuring and managing the Storage Foundation for Databases repository database
- Section IV. Improving Oracle database performance
- About database accelerators
- Improving database performance with Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager
- About Oracle Disk Manager in the Veritas InfoScale products environment
- Improving database performance with Veritas Cached Oracle Disk Manager
- About Cached ODM in SFHA environment
- Configuring Cached ODM in SFHA environment
- Administering Cached ODM settings with Cached ODM Advisor in SFHA environment
- Generating reports of candidate datafiles by using Cached ODM Advisor in SFHA environment
- Generating summary reports of historical activity by using Cached ODM Advisor in SFHA environment
- Generating reports of candidate datafiles by using Cached ODM Advisor in SFHA environment
- Improving database performance with Quick I/O
- About Quick I/O
- Improving database performance with Cached Quick I/O
- Section V. Using point-in-time copies
- Understanding point-in-time copy methods
- Volume-level snapshots
- About Reverse Resynchronization in volume-level snapshots (FlashSnap)
- Storage Checkpoints
- About FileSnaps
- Considerations for Oracle point-in-time copies
- Administering third-mirror break-off snapshots
- Administering space-optimized snapshots
- Creating a clone of an Oracle database by using space-optimized snapshots
- Administering Storage Checkpoints
- Database Storage Checkpoints for recovery
- Administering FileSnap snapshots
- Backing up and restoring with Netbackup in an SFHA environment
- Understanding point-in-time copy methods
- Section VI. Optimizing storage costs for Oracle
- Understanding storage tiering with SmartTier
- Configuring and administering SmartTier
- Configuring SmartTier for Oracle
- Optimizing database storage using SmartTier for Oracle
- Extent balancing in a database environment using SmartTier for Oracle
- Configuring SmartTier for Oracle
- SmartTier use cases for Oracle
- Compressing files and databases to optimize storage costs
- Using the Compression Advisor tool
- Section VII. Managing Oracle disaster recovery
- Section VIII. Storage Foundation for Databases administrative reference
- Storage Foundation for Databases command reference
- Tuning for Storage Foundation for Databases
- About tuning Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
- About tuning VxFS
- About tuning Oracle databases
- About tuning Solaris for Oracle
- Troubleshooting SFDB tools
- About troubleshooting Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
- About the vxdbd daemon
- Resources for troubleshooting SFDB tools
- Manual recovery of Oracle database
- Storage Foundation for Databases command reference for the releases prior to 6.0
- Preparing storage for Database FlashSnap
- About creating database snapshots
- FlashSnap commands
- 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)
- Guidelines for Oracle recovery
- Database Storage Checkpoint Commands
- Section IX. Reference
- Appendix A. VCS Oracle agents
- Appendix B. Sample configuration files for clustered deployments
- Appendix C. Database FlashSnap status information
- Appendix D. Using third party software to back up files
Administering Cached ODM settings with Cached ODM Advisor in SFHA environment
The Cached ODM Advisor simplifies the task of managing the cached ODM settings for database administrators:
Cached ODM Advisor enables you to manage and configure cached ODM on database files without requiring root privileges.
The settings applied with the Cached ODM Advisor are automatically persistent and common across all the cluster nodes.
While the Cached ODM Advisor does not provide an interface to the ODM cachemap, it enables setting the cached ODM setting to ON/ OFF (and not to DEF).
ODM Advisor lets you generate a variety of reports that help you determine which datafiles are suitable for enabling Cached ODM.
The Cached ODM Advisor command dbed_codm_adm should be run by the DBA user.
Note:
If you are using Cached ODM Advisor for clone databases, a clone database will not have the cached ODM settings enabled when it is enabled for the primary database. You must manually enable cached ODM by setting odm_cache_enable = 1 for the clone database.
The Cached ODM Advisor command dbed_codm_adm syntax is illustrated below and its options are listed in Table: Cached ODM Advisor command options.
Cached ODM Administration dbed_codm_adm Usage: -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME -o display [ -n num -c col -t tbs ] -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME -o display [ -n num ] [ -t tbs ] [-p] [-a] [ -d start_date end_date -m start_time end_time ] [ -b blacklist_file ] [ datafile ] -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME -o display [ -n num ] [ -t tbs ] [-p] [-a] [ -u snapshot_range [ -u snapshot_range ] ] [ -b blacklist_file ] [ datafile ] -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME -o display [ -n num ] [ -u num_snapshots] [ -t tbs ] [ -b blacklist_file ] [ datafile ] -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME -o [ on | off | odmstats ] datafile | -f filelist -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME -o add-to-blacklist { datafile | -f filelist } -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME -o remove-from-blacklist { datafile | -f filelist } -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME -o print-blacklist -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME -o filestate [ datafile | -f filelist ] -o iostats
Table: Cached ODM Advisor command options
Option | Use |
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-S ORACLE_SID | Specify the ORACLE_SID. ORACLE_SID is the SID of the Oracle database to be used. |
-H ORACLE_HOME | Specify the ORACLE_HOME. ORACLE_HOME is the HOME of the Oracle instance to be used. |
-o display | Generate a report of read activity on datafiles. |
-o filestate | Diaplay whether datafiles have Cached ODM turned on or not. |
-o on | Enable Cached ODM. |
-o off | Disable Cached ODM. |
-o odmstats | Displays Cached ODM I/O statistics for datafiles. |
-o iostats | Displays cumulative I/O statistics for file-type and I/O-type combinations. |
-c column_index | Specify the column on which the basic report is sorted. This is an optional field. By default I/O statistics would be sorted on number of physical reads (PHYRDS). |
-n num | Change the default number of files included in the report. Use this option together with -o display to show the top num files which are candidates for enabling Cached ODM. |
-f filelist | Specify a filename that has the list of datafiles to operate on with one file name on each line. If you do not provide a list, all of the datafiles will be processed, except in the case of the -o on or -o off option. |
-t tbs | Specify the tablespace name for which the report is to be generated. |
filename | Specify a single file name to be processed. |
-d start_date end_date | Specify a date range for which the report is to be generated. The dates are inclusive and they must be specified in yyyy/mm/dd format. |
-m start_time end_time | Specify a time range for which the report is to be generated. The start time and end time must be specified as the hour of day in 24-hour format. |
-u snapshot_specification | Specify the range of AWR (Automatic Workload Repository) snapshots to consider for the report. |
-b blacklist_file | Specify an alternate file to use as a blacklist. |
-o add-to-blacklist | Add a file to the default blacklist. |
-o remove-from-blacklist | Remove a file from the default blacklist. |
-o print-blacklist | Display the blacklisted files. |
-a | Include files that have Cached ODM enabled in generated reports. |
-p | Suppress tabular formatting to generate output suitable for programmatic processing. |