InfoScale™ 9.0 Storage and Availability Management for DB2 Databases - AIX, Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: AIX,Linux
  1. Section I. Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) management solutions for DB2 databases
    1. Overview of Storage Foundation for Databases
      1.  
        Introducing Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) Solutions for DB2
      2. About Veritas File System
        1.  
          About the Veritas File System intent log
        2.  
          About extents
        3.  
          About file system disk layouts
      3.  
        About Volume Manager
      4.  
        About Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP)
      5.  
        About Cluster Server
      6.  
        About Cluster Server agents
      7.  
        About InfoScale Operations Manager
      8.  
        Feature support for DB2 across Veritas InfoScale 9.0 products
      9.  
        Use cases for Veritas InfoScale products
  2. Section II. Deploying DB2 with InfoScale products
    1. Deployment options for DB2 in a Storage Foundation environment
      1.  
        DB2 deployment options in a Veritas InfoScale environment
      2.  
        DB2 on a single system with Storage Foundation
      3.  
        DB2 on a single system with off-host in a Storage Foundation environment
      4.  
        DB2 in a highly available cluster with Storage Foundation High Availability
      5.  
        DB2 in a parallel cluster with SF Cluster File System HA
      6.  
        Deploying DB2 and Storage Foundation in a virtualization environment
      7.  
        Deploying DB2 with Storage Foundation SmartMove and Thin Provisioning
    2. Deploying DB2 with Storage Foundation
      1.  
        Tasks for deploying DB2 databases
      2.  
        About selecting a volume layout for deploying DB2
      3. Setting up disk group for deploying DB2
        1.  
          Disk group configuration guidelines for deploying DB2
      4. Creating volumes for deploying DB2
        1.  
          Volume configuration guidelines for deploying DB2
      5. Creating VxFS file system for deploying DB2
        1.  
          File system creation guidelines for deploying DB2
      6.  
        Mounting the file system for deploying DB2
      7.  
        Installing DB2 and creating database
    3. Deploying DB2 in an off-host configuration with Storage Foundation
      1.  
        Requirements for an off-host database configuration
    4. Deploying DB2 with High Availability
      1.  
        Tasks for deploying DB2 in an HA configuration
      2.  
        Configuring VCS to make the database highly available
  3. Section III. Configuring Storage Foundation for Database (SFDB) tools
    1. Configuring and managing the Storage Foundation for Databases repository database
      1.  
        About the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository
      2.  
        Requirements for Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
      3.  
        Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools availability
      4. Configuring the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools repository
        1.  
          Locations for the SFDB repository
      5.  
        Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after adding a node
      6.  
        Updating the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository after removing a node
      7.  
        Removing the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository
    2. Configuring authentication for Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
      1.  
        Configuring vxdbd for SFDB tools authentication
      2.  
        Adding nodes to a cluster that is using authentication for SFDB tools
      3.  
        Authorizing users to run SFDB commands
  4. Section IV. Improving DB2 database performance
    1. About database accelerators
      1.  
        About Arctera InfoScale™ product components database accelerators
    2. Improving database performance with Quick I/O
      1. About Quick I/O
        1.  
          How Quick I/O improves database performance
      2.  
        Tasks for setting up Quick I/O in a database environment
      3.  
        Preallocating space for Quick I/O files using the setext command
      4.  
        Accessing regular VxFS files as Quick I/O files
      5.  
        Converting DB2 containers to Quick I/O files
      6.  
        About sparse files
      7.  
        Displaying Quick I/O status and file attributes
      8.  
        Extending a Quick I/O file
      9.  
        Monitoring tablespace free space with DB2 and extending tablespace containers
      10.  
        Recreating Quick I/O files after restoring a database
      11.  
        Disabling Quick I/O
    3. Improving DB2 database performance with Veritas Concurrent I/O
      1. About Concurrent I/O
        1.  
          How Concurrent I/O works
      2. Tasks for enabling and disabling Concurrent I/O
        1.  
          Enabling Concurrent I/O for DB2
        2.  
          Disabling Concurrent I/O for DB2
  5. Section V. Using point-in-time copies
    1. Understanding point-in-time copy methods
      1.  
        About point-in-time copies
      2.  
        When to use point-in-time copies
      3.  
        About Storage Foundation point-in-time copy technologies
      4.  
        Point-in-time copy solutions supported by SFDB tools
      5.  
        About snapshot modes supported by Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
      6. Volume-level snapshots
        1.  
          Persistent FastResync of volume snapshots
        2.  
          Data integrity in volume snapshots
        3.  
          Third-mirror break-off snapshots
      7. Storage Checkpoints
        1.  
          How Storage Checkpoints differ from snapshots
        2. How a Storage Checkpoint works
          1.  
            Copy-on-write
          2. Storage Checkpoint visibility
            1.  
              Storage Checkpoints and 64-bit inode numbers
        3.  
          About Database Rollbacks using Storage Checkpoints
        4.  
          Storage Checkpoints and Rollback process
        5.  
          Storage Checkpoint space management considerations
    2. Considerations for DB2 point-in-time copies
      1.  
        Considerations for DB2 database layouts
      2.  
        Supported DB2 configurations
    3. Administering third-mirror break-off snapshots
      1. Database FlashSnap for cloning
        1.  
          Database FlashSnap advantages
      2. Preparing hosts and storage for Database FlashSnap
        1. Setting up hosts
          1.  
            Database FlashSnap off-host configuration
        2.  
          Creating a snapshot mirror of a volume or volume set used by the database
      3.  
        Creating a clone of a database by using Database FlashSnap
      4.  
        Resynchronizing mirror volumes with primary volumes
      5.  
        Cloning a database on the secondary host
    4. Administering Storage Checkpoints
      1.  
        About Storage Checkpoints
      2. Database Storage Checkpoints for recovery
        1.  
          Advantages and limitations of Database Storage Checkpoints
      3.  
        Creating a Database Storage Checkpoint
      4.  
        Deleting a Database Storage Checkpoint
      5.  
        Mounting a Database Storage Checkpoint
      6.  
        Unmounting a Database Storage Checkpoint
      7.  
        Creating a database clone using a Database Storage Checkpoint
      8.  
        Restoring database from a Database Storage Checkpoint
      9.  
        Gathering data for offline-mode Database Storage Checkpoints
    5. Backing up and restoring with Netbackup in an SFHA environment
      1.  
        About Veritas NetBackup
      2.  
        About using Veritas NetBackup for backup and restore for DB2
      3. Using NetBackup in an SFHA Solutions product environment
        1.  
          Clustering a NetBackup Master Server
        2.  
          Backing up and recovering a VxVM volume using NetBackup
        3.  
          Recovering a VxVM volume using NetBackup
  6. Section VI. Optimizing storage costs for DB2
    1. Understanding storage tiering with SmartTier
      1. About SmartTier
        1.  
          About VxFS multi-volume file systems
        2.  
          About VxVM volume sets
        3.  
          About volume tags
        4.  
          SmartTier file management
        5.  
          SmartTier sub-file object management
      2.  
        SmartTier in a High Availability (HA) environment
    2. SmartTier use cases for DB2
      1.  
        SmartTier use cases for DB2
      2.  
        Relocating old archive logs to tier two storage using SmartTier
      3.  
        Relocating inactive tablespaces or segments to tier two storage
      4.  
        Relocating active indexes to premium storage
      5.  
        Relocating all indexes to premium storage
  7. Section VII. Storage Foundation for Databases administrative reference
    1. Storage Foundation for Databases command reference
      1.  
        vxsfadm command reference
      2. FlashSnap reference
        1.  
          FlashSnap configuration parameters
        2.  
          FlashSnap supported operations
      3. Database Storage Checkpoints reference
        1.  
          Database Storage Checkpoints configuration parameters
        2.  
          Database Storage Checkpoints supported operations
    2. Tuning for Storage Foundation for Databases
      1.  
        Additional documentation
      2. About tuning Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
        1.  
          About obtaining volume I/O statistics
      3. About tuning VxFS
        1. How monitoring free space works
          1.  
            About monitoring fragmentation
        2.  
          How tuning VxFS I/O parameters works
        3.  
          About tunable VxFS I/O parameters
        4.  
          About obtaining file I/O statistics using the Quick I/O interface
        5.  
          About I/O statistics data
        6.  
          About I/O statistics
      4. About tuning DB2 databases
        1.  
          DB2_USE_PAGE_CONTAINER_TAG
        2.  
          DB2_PARALLEL_IO
        3.  
          PREFETCHSIZE and EXTENTSIZE
        4.  
          INTRA_PARALLEL
        5.  
          NUM_IOCLEANERS
        6.  
          NUM_IOSERVERS
        7.  
          CHNGPGS_THRESH
        8.  
          Table scans
        9.  
          Asynchronous I/O
        10.  
          Buffer pools
        11.  
          Memory allocation
        12.  
          TEMPORARY tablespaces
        13.  
          DMS containers
        14.  
          Data, indexes, and logs
        15.  
          Database statistics
      5.  
        About tuning AIX Virtual Memory Manager
    3. Troubleshooting SFDB tools
      1. About troubleshooting Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
        1.  
          Running scripts for engineering support analysis for SFDB tools
        2.  
          Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools log files
      2. About the vxdbd daemon
        1.  
          Starting and stopping vxdbd
        2.  
          Configuring listening port for the vxdbd daemon
        3.  
          Limiting vxdbd resource usage
        4.  
          Configuring encryption ciphers for vxdbd
      3.  
        Troubleshooting vxdbd
      4. Resources for troubleshooting SFDB tools
        1.  
          SFDB logs
        2.  
          SFDB error messages
        3.  
          SFDB repository and repository files
      5.  
        Upgrading Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools from 5.0.x to 9.0 (2184482)

Monitoring tablespace free space with DB2 and extending tablespace containers

DB2 does not automatically make use of extended DMS files. When tablespace space needs to be extended, a number of DB2 commands must be run. Unlike raw devices, a Database Administrator can easily extend Quick I/O files online. Using this method, a Database Administrator can monitor the free space available in the DB2 tablespaces and use the qiomkfile command to grow the Quick I/O files online as needed (typically when the file is about 80 to 90% full). This method does not require you to lock out unused disk space for Quick I/O files. The free space on the file system is available for use by other applications.

Before extending tablespaces, make sure the following conditions have been met:

Prerequisites

  • Log on as the DB2 instance owner.

Usage notes

  • Monitor the free space available in the Quick I/O file, and grow the file as necessary with the qiomkfile command.

  • A Database Administrator can grow underlying VxFS file systems online (provided the underlying disk or volume can be extended) using the fsadm command. See the fsadm (1M) manual page for more information.

  • It is strongly recommended that if a DB2 tablespace is running out of space, that all containers are grown by the same amount. It is possible to add extra containers to the tablespace, but this results in DB2 performing a relayout of the data to balance usage across all available containers in the tablespace.

    Also refer to the DB2 Administration Guide section on Managing Storage and the DB2 SQL Reference Guide for information on the ALTER TABLESPACE command.

To monitor the free space available in a DB2 tablespace

  • Use the following DB2 commands:
    $ db2 connect to database
$ db2 list tablespaces show detail
$ db2 terminate

To extend a Quick I/O file using qiomkfile

  • Use the qiomkfile command to extend the Quick I/O file (if the container is running low on free blocks):
    # /opt/VRTS/bin/qiomkfile -e extend_amount filename

To extend a DB2 tablespace by a fixed amount

  • Use the following DB2 commands:
    $ db2 connect to database
    $ db2 alter tablespace tablespace-name extend (ALL amount)
    $ db2 terminate

    This example shows how to monitor the free space on the tablespaces in database PROD:

    $ db2 connect to PROD
    $ db2 list tablespaces show detail
    $ db2 terminate

    This example shows how to extend the three DB2 containers owned by tablespace EMP by 500MB using the qiomkfile command:

    # /opt/VRTS/bin/qiomkfile -e 500M tbsEMP_cont001
    # /opt/VRTS/bin/qiomkfile -e 500M tbsEMP_cont002
    # /opt/VRTS/bin/qiomkfile -e 500M tbsEMP_cont003

    This example shows how to notify DB2 that all containers in tablespace EMP have grown by 500MB:

    $ db2 connect to PROD
    $ db2 alter tablespace EMP extend (ALL 500M)
    $ db2 terminate

    This example shows how to verify the newly allocated space on the tablespace EMP in database PROD:

    $ db2 connect to PROD
    $ db2 list tablespaces show detail
    $ db2 terminate