Provided within this document are the steps necessary to create a highly available Solaris zone environment using Cluster File System HA 6.0. Additional content includes advanced provisioning techniques using Storage Foundation Space Optimized Snaps...
Starting from Storage Foundation 6.0.1, one of feature that was introduced is Dynamic Reconfiguration tool. From my point of view, this feature is extremely useful because avoiding any kind of service interruption. Dynamic Multi-Pathing provides a Dy...
One of the requested operations that seems to be popular at the moment is how to migrate existing RDMs to VMDKs, especially more so since Veritas Cluster Server 6.0.x now supports VMDKs . In this two part article we shall take a look on how to achie...
The next versions of Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) and VOM Advanced (available within this year), will have exciting new features, including: Multi-tenancy management: Test the ability to create and manage groups of servers/clusters/arrays and...
The Storage Foundation High Availability Product Management team is pleased to announce the upcoming SFHA 6.1 Beta Program. SFHA 6.1 is focused on I/O Optimization, reduction of infrastructure, and unparalleled availability of mission critical appli...
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...
Typically any storage device is accessed using a specific protocol (IDE/SCSI) device driver. The device driver deals with mechanisms to access the device and sending commands to it using the transport mechanism provided by the underlying transport or...
There are quite a few disk group types and some are similarly named between UNIX and Windows, but have different meaning, so this article aims to clarify the different types which are as follows: Root/Boot disk group (rootdg) in UNIX is an optional...
Whilst presenting to various customers and at many conferences about Symantec ApplicationHA solution, I often hear questions about the availability of a virtualized vCenter Server. There are various options available if your system is sitting on phys...
Storage Foundation provides the ability to increase server utilization, simplify database infrastructure and reduce operational costs. This technical white paper provides an overview of the Storage Foundation Cached Oracle Disk Manager (CODM) usage g...
Storage Foundation provides the ability to consolidate Oracle databases to increase server utilization, simplify database infrastructure and reduce operational costs. This white paper provides an overview of the Cached Oracle Disk Manager (CODM) capa...
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...
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...
Veritas™ Volume Replicator (VVR) is a data-replication software solution designed to contribute to an effective disaster recovery plan. VVR enables you to maintain a consistent copy of application data at one or more remote locations.VVR is a separat...
Introduction Oracle e-Business Suite (EB-Suite or EBS or OEBS) is the most comprehensive suite of integrated, global business applications that provides integrated business intelligence portfolio, global business platform, and customer-focused applic...
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...
Storage Foundation Thin Reclamation By allowing physical storage to essentially be allocated on demand as application writes are performed on thin LUNs, Thin Provisioning effectively automates storage provisioning. The problem is that when data i...
This paper describes the Dynamic Multi-pathing (DMP) feature of Veritas Storage Foundation™. The product architecture described herein was introduced with DMP release 5.0. It was subsequently backported to the Solaris 4.1 code base in SxRT 4.1 MP2, t...
Abstract The Veritas product installer for Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.1 on Solaris provides support for Solaris JumpStart. The Solaris JumpStart feature is a customizable automated installation on Solaris environments. This ...
Executive Summary The performance gap between computing devices and storage devices has been growing for several years. Currently, CPU and DRAM operations are measured in nanoseconds while hard disk drive (HDD) operations are measured in milliseconds...
