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LLT peerinact tunable consideration for AIX

Here is a link to an article which talks about increasing the llt_peerinact timeout to be 32s instead of the default 16s for AIX: http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/282024.htm

VCS One- Backup and Recovery

Applicable Releases: VCS One 2.0 & 2.0RU1 10/5/2009 VCS One Backup and Recovery After implementing VCS One it’s important to have a good data protection plan to protect your Policy Master. The following discusses best practices for backing up ...

Stop Buying Storage Best Practices: Veritas CommandCentral Storage and Veritas Storage Foundation

Author: Tom Harwood, Symantec Storage and Availability Management Group Introduction “Why are we spending so much money on storage and what can we do about it?” are questions that many companies are asking themselves. Answering these questions, howev...

Setting up Sun Logical Domains for deploying Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC White Paper

This white paper discusses various configuration scenarios and the corresponding workflows for setting up Sun Logical domains (LDoms) to deploy Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SFRAC). The scenarios in the white paper describe the deploymen...

VCS CLI Quick Reference

Attached is a VCS CLI Quick reference (2-page) document that I have found to be handy in the use of VCS. Also attached is a 1-page VCS Quick reference from Veritas Education. Veritas Education: http://www.symantec.com/business/training/product_traini...

Powering Linux in the Data Center

Symantec and Linux in the data center Many IT professionals are drawn by the economy that Linux brings to the data center but are concerned about the potential risks that arise from trusting their business to “free” software. For mission-critical ent...

Data Centre Standardisation

“Standardisation is the ability for organisations to leverage a single layer of infrastructure software across their entire data centre that reduces IT complexity, protects information and applications, improves manageability and control of cross-pla...

Storage Consolidation (Utilisation): Disks and Disk Subsystems

There are some fundamental trends in the IT marketplace that are going to force organisations of all sizes to reconsider how they provide IT services to their respective businesses. Operational costs are outstripping capital outlay and power consumpt...

Symantec Capitalizes on Veritas File System Expertise for Scale-Out NAS

By: Terri McClure, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. Keeping Pace with Data Growth Continues to be a Top Storage Challenge The management of file-based or “unstructured” content (i.e., multimedia files, Web pages, office productivity documents, et...

Veritas Storage Foundation Scalable File Server (SFS) Solution Brief for Healthcare

By Greg Schulz, Founder and Senior Analyst, the StorageIO Group, Author “The Green and Virtual Data Center” (CRC) Introduction Healthcare organizations are faced with the demands of supporting a growing patient population requiring more procedures an...

IDC Vendor Spotlight: Leveraging Clustered File System Software to Deliver Superior Application Availability

IDC Vendor Spotlight By Noemi Greyzdorf Transactional application availability is more important than ever to businesses in a globalized economy. This Vendor Spotlight examines the various architectural approaches to ensuring application uptime and ...

The EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC and what does it mean for public communication providers (fixed line, mobile telecoms, ISPs)

The EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC is currently in its implementation phase. This means that at member state level each EU country should have their own version of the “data retention” directive embodied and incorporated into their national l...

Automation In The Data Centre Mitigates Risk

Risky business If risk management is the process of measuring, or assessing risk, where risk is the potential impact (either positive or negative) to an asset, and therefore, a process, that has some form of characteristic value, from some future eve...

Storage Foundation - Can Anyone Beat It?

Sometimes you wonder how difficult the task of a Storage Administrator can be. Especially when you manage the environment consisting of Multivendor storage devices, Multiple Operating Systems, Heterogeneous servers, multiple applications and databas...

Life has become easy with Command Central

I used to work as a part time consultant for a financial organization and have a very good expertise in handling storage devices. I have worked on many storage devices and storage management software’s. Using this experience, I am writing this arti...

Whitepaper: Portable, Virtualized Oracle Environments on Solaris using SF HA/DR

Would you like to split up a Sun server to deploy multiple Oracle environments, with each one isolated and behaving like a separate box? This whitepaper covers how to create virtualized Oracle servers utilizing Solaris Zones and make them completely ...

Optimizing your storage strategy with CommandCentral

Optimizing your storage strategy with CommandCentral Answers to common questions on SRM and CommandCentral 1. What is the importance of management of storage resources for any enterprise? Enterprises today are faced with escalating costs for managi...

FAQs and Myths for Storage Foundation Keys

FAQs and Myths for Storage Foundation Keys Keys have gotten simpler, but explanations and awareness haven’t kept up June 16, 2009 To start, let’s review the difference between a license and a key, as the two terms are often (but incorrectly) used in...

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0MP3 Installer Support for JumpStart

Created by: Chang Jung and Steve Sundstrom Abstract The Veritas product installer for Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0MP3 on Solaris provides support for Solaris JumpStart. The Solaris JumpStart feature is a customizable automat...

No Going Without Veritas Volume Manager(SF)

I started my career way back in 1997, with SCO Unix environment supporting again the banking IT application, like Foxpro, Novell Lan and other standalone applications which were important for the banking environment. I’m just trying to share the exp...

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