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Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle

Veritas File System is a high performance journaling file system that provides easy management and quick-recovery for applications. Veritas File System delivers scalable performance, continuous availability, increased I/O throughput, and structural integrity.

Veritas Volume Manager removes the physical limitations of disk storage. You can configure, share, manage, and optimize storage I/O performance online without interrupting data availability. Veritas Volume Manager also provides easy-to-use, online storage management tools to reduce downtime.

VxFS and VxVM are included in all Veritas Storage Foundation products. If you have purchased a Veritas Storage Foundation product, VxFS and VxVM are installed and updated as part of that product. Do not install or update them as individual components.

Veritas Storage Foundation has the following products:

Storage Foundation Standard

Storage Foundation Enterprise

The Veritas products table lists the optionally licensed features available with each Storage Foundation version.

Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle

Before you install this product, complete the following tasks:

Read the product release notes.

Review the preliminary information.

Follow the instructions in the Storage Foundation Installation Guide.

These documents are located at the following directories in the release media.

storage_foundation/docs/sf_notes.pdf

storage_foundation/docs/sf_install.pdf

About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle®

Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle® by Symantec is an integrated set of system software enhancements and configuration guidelines. The enhancements and guidelines help Oracle database administrators configure a database system with high performance, availability, manageability, and reliability.

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HP UX Operating Systems manual About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle