Veritas Storage Foundation™ Advanced Features Administrator's Guide 5.1 - Solaris
| Article:DOC2961 | | | Created: 2010-09-20 | | | Updated: 2010-09-20 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC2961 |
Description
Table of Contents:
Overview
Advanced features in Storage Foundation
About Snapshots
Snapshot Technique
About point-in-time copy solutions
Point-in-time copy solutions
Applications of point-in-time copy solutions
Implementing point-in time copy solutions on a primary host
Implementing off-host point-in-time copy solutions
Setting up volumes for instant snapshots
About setting up volumes for instant snapshots
Additional preparation activities
Preparing a volume for instant snapshot operations
Creating a volume for use as a full-sized instant snapshot
Creating a shared cache object
Online database backup
About online database backup
Making a backup of an online database on the same host
Making an off-host backup of an online database
Off-host cluster file system backup
About off-host cluster file system backup
Mounting a file system for shared access
Using off-host processing to back up cluster file systems
Decision support
About decision support
Creating a replica database on the same host
Creating an off-host replica database
Storage Checkpoints
Storage Checkpoints
Creating Storage Checkpoints
Rolling back a database
About Storage Checkpoints
How Storage Checkpoints differ from snapshots
How a Storage Checkpoint works
Copy-on-write
Types of Storage Checkpoints
Data Storage Checkpoints
Nodata Storage Checkpoints
Removable Storage Checkpoints
Non-mountable Storage Checkpoints
Storage Checkpoint administration
Creating a Storage Checkpoint
Removing a Storage Checkpoint
Accessing a Storage Checkpoint
Converting a data Storage Checkpoint to a nodata Storage Checkpoint
Space management considerations
Restoring from a Storage Checkpoint
Restoring a file from a Storage Checkpoint
Storage Checkpoint quotas
Overview of CDS
General concepts
CDS disk access and format
Non-CDS disk groups
Disk group alignment
Setting up your system
Creating CDS disks from uninitialized disks
Creating CDS disks from initialized VxVM disks
Creating CDS disk groups
Converting non-CDS disks to CDS disks
Converting a non-CDS disk group to a CDS disk group
Verifying licensing
Defaults files
Maintaining your system
Disk tasks
Disk group tasks
Displaying information
Default activation mode of shared disk groups
Additional considerations when importing CDS disk groups
File system considerations
Considerations about data in the file system
File system migration
Specifying the migration target
Using the fscdsadm command
Migrating a file system one time
Migrating a file system on an ongoing basis
When to convert a file system
Converting the byte order of a file system
Alignment value and block size
Disk group alignment and encapsulated disks
Disk group import between Linux and non-Linux machines
Migrating a snapshot volume
About migration from Solaris Volume Manager
How Solaris Volume Manager objects are mapped to VxVM objects
Conversion of soft partitions
Overview of the conversion process
Plan and prepare for the conversion
Set up the conversion
Perform the conversion
Perform post-conversion tasks
Planning the conversion
Scheduling considerations
Schedule downtime
Check metadevices
Identify references by applications
Preparing a Solaris Volume Manager configuration for conversion
Installing VxVM
Setting up a Solaris Volume Manager configuration for conversion
Run preconvert
Run showconvert
Run convertname
Make backups
Converting from the Solaris Volume Manager software to VxVM
Reboot the system
Change volume references
Post conversion tasks
Improve volume layouts
Remove the Solaris Volume Manager software
Converting a root disk
About Thin Storage
Identifying thin and thin reclamation LUNs
Reclamation of storage on thin reclamation arrays
About SmartMove
Setting up SmartMove
Migrating to thin provisioning
SmartMove and Thin array limitations
SmartMove, thin arrays, and mirrors
SmartMove overhead
About Dynamic Storage Tiering
Supported Dynamic Storage Tiering document type definitions
Placement classes
Tagging volumes as placement classes
Listing placement classes
Administering placement policies
Assigning a placement policy
Unassigning a placement policy
Analyzing the space impact of enforcing a placement policy
Querying which files will be affected by enforcing a placement policy
Enforcing a placement policy
Validating a placement policy
File placement policy grammar
File placement policy rules
SELECT statement
CREATE statement
RELOCATE statement
DELETE statement
Calculating I/O temperature and access temperature
Multiple criteria in file placement policy rule statements
Multiple file selection criteria in SELECT statement clauses
Multiple placement classes in <ON> clauses of CREATE statements and in <TO> clauses of RELOCATE statements
Multiple placement classes in <FROM> clauses of RELOCATE and DELETE statements
Multiple conditions in <WHEN> clauses of RELOCATE and DELETE statements
File placement policy rule and statement ordering
File placement policies and extending files
Using Dynamic Storage Tiering with solid state disks
Fine grain temperatures
Prefer mechanism
Average I/O activity
Frequent scans
Quick identification of cold files
Example placement policy when using solid state disks
CDS error codes and recovery actions
About files and scripts for sample scenarios
Script to initiate online off-host backup of an Oracle database
Script to put an Oracle database into hot backup mode
Script to quiesce a Sybase ASE database
Script to suspend I/O for a DB2 database
Script to end Oracle database hot backup mode
Script to release a Sybase ASE database from quiesce mode
Script to resume I/O for a DB2 database
Script to perform off-host backup
Script to create an off-host replica Oracle database
Script to complete, recover and start a replica Oracle database
Script to start a replica Sybase ASE database
About preparing a replica Oracle database
Text control file for original production database
SQL script to create a control file
Initialization file for original production database
Initialization file for replica Oracle database
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