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ksethupathy's avatar
14 years ago

Oracle 11G R2 failover support in SF HA for Oracle 5.0 MP1

I have Storage Foundation for Oracle HA 5.0 with MP1 with some point patches (details are shown below). Can this configuration support Oracle 11G R2 databases ? If this does not support, what is the ...
  • g_lee's avatar
    14 years ago

    Oracle 11g does not appear to be supported in 5.0MP1.

    5.0MP3 appears to support Oracle 11g, however there is no mention of release (ie: it probably does not support 11g R2):

    Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0MP3 (Solaris) Release Notes -> Changes in Storage Foundation -> Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle (pp18-19)

    https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/sf/5.0MP3/solaris/pdf/sf_notes.pdf

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    Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle includes the following change in 5.0 MP3.

    Support for new database
    Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle provides support for the Oracle™ 11g database in the 5.0 MP3 release.

    The following features of Veritas Storage Foundation for Databases are supported in the Oracle 11g environment:
    • Storage Checkpoints
    • Storage mapping
    • Database cloning (clonedb)
    • Database Flashsnap
    • Tiered storage for databases (DBDST)
    • Quick I/O
    • Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager (ODM)

    For 11g on Solaris:
    If you are using ODM and and plan to use the init_ora "memory_target", you must apply the patch for Oracle bug 664726.
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    SF 5.1 does appear to have support for Oracle 11g R2 on Solaris 10 according to the following link:

    TECH74389: Supported Database versions for Storage Foundations(HA) and Storage Foundations for Databases(SFDB) tools
    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH74389

    Hope that helps,

    Grace