Hitachi Adapter for Oracle Enterprise Manager - Database Cloning

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1 Hitachi Adapter for Oracle Enterprise Manager - Database Cloning v Release Notes Contents About This Document... 2 Intended Audience... 2 Getting Help... 2 About This Release... 2 Hardware Requirements... 3 Software Requirements... 3 New Features in This Release... 6 Known Issues... 6 Related Documents... 7 Copyrights and Licenses

2 About This Document This document provides the latest information about the Hitachi Adapter for Oracle Enterprise Manager - Database Cloning, release It includes information that was not available at the time the technical documentation for this product was published. Intended Audience This document is intended for customers of the Hitachi Storage Adapter for Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Cloning. Most customers are database administrators or perform similar roles. Getting Help The Hitachi Data Systems Support Center staff is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Provisions for patches and fixes are restricted to normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST. If you need technical support, log on to the Hitachi Data Systems Portal for contact information: If you purchased this product from an authorized Hitachi Data Systems reseller, contact that reseller for support. Before calling the Hitachi Data Systems Support Center, please provide as much information about the problem as possible, including: The circumstances surrounding the error or failure. The exact content of any error message(s) displayed on the host system(s). About This Release This release note covers the second release of Hitachi Adapter for Oracle Enterprise Manager - Database Cloning. 2

3 Supported Hardware and Software Note This release supports the software and hardware listed below. Hardware or software not listed is not supported in this release. Hardware Requirements Servers CPU Item Minimum Requirements Note Two servers: production and backup 1.2GHz or faster Intel/AMD processor for Linux Memory 4 GB or more na Graphics 1024x768, 24-bit color or more na HDD Capacity 1GB Network Gigabit connection recommended na na Recommended: Four CPUs at 500MHz each >=400MB on the drive that has the ${TMP} directory Software Requirements Software Requirements Hitachi Storage Adapter for Oracle Database Cloning rpm file Python version 2.6 Oracle Database 11gR2 Standalone and RAC configuration Oracle Database 12c Standalone and RAC configuration RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.5x64bit, RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.6x64bit,Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.5x64bit, Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.6x64bit Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g with ASM Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c with ASM Command Control Interface (CCI) /06 or higher must be installed and configured. See the Hitachi Command Control Interface Installation and Configuration Guide for instructions. 3

4 Server OS OS version Redhat bit Redhat bit OEL bit OEL bit Supported Storage Models Model MicroVersion Supported Hitachi Unified Storage VM /00 Virtual Storage Platform /00 Virtual Storage Platform- G (V02+1)/00 Hitachi Unified Storage 0981/B-S Virtual Storage Platform Gx00 License Key /00 Copy Method Platform Supported Hitachi ShadowImage software Hitachi CoW/HTI Snapshot VSP, VSPGx00, VSP-G1000,HUS, HUS-VM VSP, VSPGx00, VSP-G1000,HUS, HUS-VM Host Interface Interface FC iscsi Supported 4

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6 Volume Type Volume Type Normal Supported New Features in This Release 11g standalone database cloning via ShadowImage/HTI/CoW snapshot. ShadowImage replicates from 1 to N, where N is the maximum supported number of L1 pairs for the storage system. 11g RAC database cloning via ShadowImage/HTI/CoW snapshot. Oracle 12c standalone database cloning via ShadowImage/HTI/CoW snapshot. Oracle 12c RAC database cloning via ShadowImage/HTI/CoW snapshot. Database cloning via staging server. DB cloning on RHEL6.5, RHEL 6.6, OEL 6.5 and OEL 6.6x64 bit Operating Systems. Schedule cloning jobs using OEM console. Cloning of Oracle database configured on virtual machines and cloned to a virtual target. Known Issues Remote Replication is not supported for this release. Storage cloning is only by ShadowImage technology. Snapshot/HTI are not supported. This release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Database cloning does not support OEM job support. But still it holds the OEM in its name. It will be supported in in a future release. 6

7 HUVM support is not available in this version of Hitachi Adapter for Oracle Enterprise Manager - Database Cloning. Because ASM supports 2TB disk, 60TB LUN support is not available with VSP Gx00 storage systems. RAC DB cloning, DB cloning from node1 to node,1 is supported. Add the instance to node2 server manually. When ODC cloning fails and you wish to rerun the script, use Storage Navigator manually to delete the replication pair, delete the LUN paths, and delete the LDEVs. When ODC cloning completes successfully, and you wish to rerun the script, use Storage Navigator manually to delete the replication pair, delete the LUN paths, and delete the LDEV. During the Discovery script, if any of the LUNs are unable to open or if any of the LUNs return non-zero exit codes for page80 info, then the adapter script fails. Debug the LUN issue and re-run the script. Related Documents Hitachi Adapter for Oracle Enterprise Manager - Database Cloning User s Guide, MK-92ADPTR Copyrights and Licenses Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including copying and recording, or stored in a database or retrieval system for commercial purposes without the express written permission of Hitachi, Ltd., or Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (collectively Hitachi ). Licensee may make copies of the Materials provided that any such copy is: (i) created as an essential step in utilization of the Software as licensed and is used in no other manner; or (ii) used for archival purposes. Licensee may not make any other copies of the Materials. Materials mean text, data, photographs, graphics, audio, video and documents. Hitachi reserves the right to make changes to this Material at any time without notice and assumes no responsibility for its use. The Materials contain the most current information available at the time of publication. 7

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