Veritas Storage Foundation Release Notes

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Storage Foundation Release Notes
Changes introduced in 6.0
Changes related to SFDB tools
The following sections describe the changes related to Storage Foundation for
Databases (SFDB) tools in 6.0.
Support for space-optimized snapshots for database cloning
You can use Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools to take space-optimized
snapshots of your Oracle database and then create database clones by using those
snapshots. SFDB tools use the underlying features of Storage Foundation for this
operation.
See Veritas Storage Foundation: Storage And Availability Management for Oracle
Databases.
SmartTier integration with OEM
You can now view the following SmartTier related information in the Oracle
Enterprise Manager (OEM) reports:
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Storage allocation and free space in each tier
Space occupied by a data file in each tier
This is useful when a part of a data file is moved from tier to tier when database
objects such as table or index are moved.
Enhancements to Cached ODM Advisor (dbed_codm_adm)
You can use the Cached ODM Advisor command dbed_codm_adm to generate a
variety of reports that help you determine which data files are suitable for enabling
Cached ODM. The reports generated by Cached ODM Advisor are enhanced to use
the historical data from Oracle Automatic Workload Repository (AWR).
See Veritas Storage Foundation: Storage And Availability Management for Oracle
Databases.
Support for space-optimized snapshots on DR site for database cloning
You can use Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools in a replicated
environment to take space-optimized snapshots on a disaster recovery (DR) site.
This functionality lets you create clones of your Oracle database on the DR site
in a setup where the database on the primary site is being replicated on the DR
site.
See Veritas Storage Foundation: Storage And Availability Management for Oracle
Databases.