Defining a Backup Medium in SAP DB/MaxDB
Prior to running a backup, create at least one backup medium per backup type (complete, incremental) in SAP DB/MaxDB. When using Backint for Oracle, the name of backup medium created must begin with BACK. The type of backup medium must be PIPE. The following procedure demonstrates connecting to dbmcli, and then creating a backup medium (in this case, a sample medium called BACKORA).

Performing Backup And Restore
When running a backup of SAP DB/MaxDB, you must include the backup medium you created. The first step of the following procedure starts the utility session. You must start the utility session before running a backup. To learn more about utility session refer to SAP DB/MaxDB documentation.

Troubleshooting

• Useful log file $RUNDIRECTORY/dbm.ebp
  – Default run directory is <install_path>\sdb\data\wrk\<database_name>)
• Naming convention could add confusion:
  – Executable for “Backint for SAP DB/MaxDB” – backint
  – Executable for “Backint for Oracle” – backint
  – Executable for Adapter Program – backint

INTRODUCING ORACLE VM TO ORACLE ON DEMAND
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HP Insight Dynamics – VSE for Integrity (ID-VSE) allows you to improve your server utilization in real time. Combining intelligent control of your virtualized environment with partitioning, ID-VSE can help you create a pool of virtual servers within an Integrity BL870c, which can increase or reduce based on your business needs. ID-VSE also brings the flexibility of virtualization to physical blades through the new logical server capability. The logical server is a server profile that is easy to create and can be freely moved across physical machines. By detaching the logical identity from the physical resource, you can create or move logical servers on any suitable physical machine—on demand. Templates can be created for business applications with specific configurations, and these can be stored and reactivated in minutes. This simplifies infrastructure change and increases business agility.

• HP Integrity Virtual Machines, a soft partitioning and virtualization technology, provides operating system isolation, shared CPU (with sub-CPU granularity), shared I/O, and automatic and dynamic resource allocation.

Building Scalable Storage Grids

Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Servers can be installed in to a standard 19-inch rack and are connected to database servers via InfiniBand. Exadata Storage Servers have dual 40 Gigabit InfiniBand links that provide connectivity many times faster than traditional storage or server networks. Further, Oracle’s interconnect protocol uses direct data placement to ensure very low CPU overhead by directly moving data from the wire to database buffers with no extra data copies.
Exadata Storage Servers are architected to scale-out easily. To achieve higher performance and greater storage capacity, additional Exadata Storage Servers are added to the configuration. This, combined with faster InfiniBand interconnect, Exadata Smart Flash Cache and the reduction of data transferred due to offload processing, yields very large performance improvements. A 10x improvement in query performance compared to traditional database storage architectures is common, with much greater improvement possible.

During installation, the NetBackup Browser is configured to work with a specific NetBackup client. When a user starts an operation using the NetBackup Browser, the browser software sends the appropriate messages to its designated NetBackup client. The software on the NetBackup client then communicates with the server and handles the client side of the operation.

NetBackup client software enables server directed backup, archive, and restore operations on entire folders or individual files that reside on your NetBackup client. This software also allows you to perform user directed backup, archive, and restore operations on your NetBackup client, without logging into the NetBackup master server. Once you start a user directed operation, the NetBackup process runs under the control of the NetBackup master server. You request the service and the NetBackup master server manages the rest, including storage and retrieval of data.

Progress Logs and Email Notifications

NetBackup progress logs provide information on the progress of a NetBackup operation. These logs also indicate the success and failure of a NetBackup operation. For each user-directed operation, NetBackup can be configured to create a separate progress log file. You can delete the log files when they are no longer needed. For more details on creating log files, refer to “Checking Progress of Operations” on page 98 for xbp or “Checking Progress of Operations” on page 74 for bp. For more details on log files for the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface, refer to “Viewing the Progress of Backups and Restores” on page 30.

The NetBackup server can be configured to deliver email notifications to the client user on the status of the client user’s NetBackup operations. Refer to the NetBackup System Administrator’s Guide for UNIX or the NetBackup System Administrator’s Guide for Windows for details on configuring the server for email notifications.