I have faced Replication in Passthru mode twice, Once it happened at one of our client and then I faced it at my Internal office. Firstly I read in detail what is the root cause of replication to enter into Passthru mode. This is the summary of why t...
Regulatory compliance is a critical factor in the development of an IT Business Continuity strategy. The requirements vary across industry sectors and geographies. It is also worth noting that not all regulations may apply in a specific business situ...
In the systems world, customers have use cases to migrate from AIX Operating System to Linux in their Enterprise or Mission Critical Data Center. The key challenge with such a migration is to move production data seamlessly with very minimal downtime...
Last week Veritas Cluster Server 6.0.2 for Linux (and 6.0.1 for Windows) was released with new features to allow application failover in VMware environments. Basically that means VCS running in the guest but with a full integration with VMware, which...
Introduction As we know, Symantec VBS provides start-stop, fault-management and disaster-recovery capabilities for business services with multiple tiers running in heterogeneous platforms e.g. database tier running in AIX, application tier running in...
There has been some confusion on the ability to deploy a VCS Agent with ApplicationHA. The official ApplicationHA agents have additional functionality to provide wizard-based application configurations such as configuring a service group by discoveri...
Are you setting up Veritas Cluster Server in VMware vSphere? Below is a technical guide to walk you through the process such as configuring Veritas Cluster Server clusters across ESX hosts and the compatibility of VCS with VMware HA. Contents includ...
Symantec ApplicationHA is an easy-to-use availability solution specifically built for providing application availability in virtual environments. Veritas Cluster Server is the industry’s leading clustering solution for reducing business critical appl...
We are excited to announce the agenda for the Storage and Availability Management Group (SAMG) Customer Forum 2012. We have only limited seats available for this highly technical event run by the engineers for the engineers. If you have not done alre...
We are excited to announce the agenda for the Storage and Availability Management Group (SAMG) Customer Forum 2012. We have only limited seats available for this highly technical event run by the engineers for the engineers. If you have not done alre...
Abstract The biggest announcement from Symantec’s Storage Availability & Management Group in five years, this release touches all of the major storage and availability products in Symantec’s portfolio. This is less about products and more about custo...
With VCS 5.1SP1, we have introduced a new way to monitor applications within a cluster. This document helps explain the difference from traditional, legacy poll-based monitoring and the new intelligent monitoring framework. By removing the constant ...
One of the really cool things about Storage Foundation Cluster File System (CFS) and Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) is that the on-disk formats they use are identical to those of regular VxFS and VxVM. You can go back and forth with no data conversion....
Today we will try to configure SSH for ""sun OS"" and ""rhel"" because if you dont want that installer will ask you the password again and again( of remote machines ) while installation of Veritas Storage Foundation HA version 5(could be etc) then ...
Today we are going to configure a basic scenario the SQL HA/DR. Veritas Cluster Server HA/DR provide failover of applications and databases within a data center or to remote data centers. In the below activity we try to show the database failover to...
Executive Summary This white paper, illustrates a process to migrate a Red Hat Cluster (RHC) to Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). An introduction to the architecture of VCS is described including sections comparing RHC and VCS which contrast cluster ter...
The attached presentation is a walkthrough of a new installation of SFW-HA 5.1 SP2 that includes pre-installation tasks, the installation itself which includes information about licensting, the options, system selection, the installation summary and ...
Overview The Linux Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM) is the latest offer from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), starting in RHEL 5.4 for a complete virtualization solution. This document explains how you can use Veritas Cluster Server software in RHEL KVM...
This technical application note includes the following topics: Veritas Cluster Server setup for VMware vSphere VCS cluster on a single ESX hostVCS cluster across ESX hostsVCS cluster between physical and virtual machinesDisaster recovery setup...
This white paper, created with the assistance of HP, illustrates a process to migrate an HP Serviceguard for Linux (SGLX) cluster to Veritas Cluster Server (VCS). An introduction to the architecture of VCS is described including sections comparing SG...
