1 Maintaining Oracle HSM Solutions

Throughout the planning and deployment process, we have stressed that QFS file systems and Oracle Hierarchical Storage Manager software are designed to hide the complexities of performance optimization, data protection, and archiving behind a simple, UNIX file-system interface. Users, applications, and, for the most part, administrators should be able to treat a fully optimized, Oracle HSM archiving system implemented on a mix of disk arrays and tape libraries as if it were an ordinary UFS file system on a single, local disk. Once installed and configured, Oracle HSM software should automatically manage your data and storage resources in the most efficient and reliable way possible, with minimal human intervention.

That said, as with any UNIX file system, there are still monitoring and periodic management tasks that need to be carried out. This book outlines these activities.