Enhance availability, performance, and manageability for Oracle Database and Oracle RAC environments on HP-UX 11i with HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite (SG SMS). SG SMS achieves these enhancements by integrating HP Serviceguard—a tested and proven UNIX® high-availability product—with Veritas Storage FoundationTM technologies by Symantec®.

Features

Enhance performance and data integrity

• Improve performance of up to 10x—near 'raw-volume' performance—while experiencing the manageability of a file system
• Expand file systems up to 32 TB with support of larger file systems and volumes
• Automatically map mission critical data to the highest performance storage using policy-based tiered storage

Increase availability

• Shrink planned maintenance time as applications can be moved among servers, keeping the applications available during software and hardware updates
• Experience highly available application services by enabling multiple servers, partitions, or virtual machines to be grouped into clusters through integration of SG SMS and HP-UX virtualisation
• Reduce storage-related downtime and improve storage utilisation by grouping physical disks into logical volumes gaining more control of online storage management
• Recover quickly from human error and other surprises with the ability to reduce data backup recovery from hours to minutes through the use of storage checkpoint capabilities

Reduce time and cost

• Decrease administration time and effort by up to 75%¹
• Reduce storage costs by transparently relocating data to different classes of storage based on the data’s importance and how often it is accessed with Serviceguard SM for Oracle Premium
• Obtain greater control of online storage management
• Simplify cluster, storage and application manageability