Rationale Even small changes in default behavior can trigger operational changes. In general, Storage Foundation aims to minimize such changes, but occasionally they are necessary; and some changes which occur every release may not be well under...
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...
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...
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...
Written by: Jeffrey Armorer, Technical Product Manager, Symantec Storage and Availability Management Group Introduction Multi-pathing software provides the intelligence necessary to manage multiple I/O paths between a server and a storage subsystem...
Written by: Karthik Ramamurthy, Technical Product Manager and David Noy, Sr. Product Manager Cluster File System Introduction The fundamental properties of CFS including access to shared file systems by applications running on all nodes of the cluste...
Written by: Venkata Reddy Chappavarapu, Sr. Software Engineer, Symantec Data Center Management Group Introduction Many organizations rely on SAP applications to support vital business processes. Any disruption of these services translates directly i...
Microsoft introduced several new storage management features in Windows Server 2003. In Windows Server 2008, they extend functionality to include the ability to shrink partitions and volumes online and DSMs to configure multi-pathing in iSCSI and FC ...
Written by: Oscar Wahlberg and David Noy, Symantec Storage and Server Management Group Introduction SAP NetWeaver suite is a suite of business products that is designed to support complete business management tasks of a corporation, company or insti...
Written by: Sean Derrington, Josh Kahn, Paul Massiglia This Symantec Yellow Book describes how to standardize storage configuration and administration across all of a data center's platforms to result in better quality of service at lower administr...
Written By: DCIG LLC Abstract File-based virtualization solutions, like VMware ESX Server, are best suited to low-impact file, print and web services. For applications and databases, you need a block-based virtualization system designed for high perf...
Written By Symantec Development: Data centers are increasingly turning to “thin provisioning” to simplify operational tasks and save capital budget. Thin provisioning, also known as dynamic provisioning, creates a virtual disk drive that appears, to ...
Current Business Scenario: The current recessionary economic cycle has introduced a great deal of uncertainty into the business climate. Organizations are reluctant to spend any more money than absolutely necessary, which has limited or delayed the a...
Written by: Marianne Lent, Symantec Advisory Engineer Overview This document discusses Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST). It primarily describes how to write XML placement policy rules. Examples in later sections build on e...
Introduction This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numb...
Written by: Naveen Williams, Principal SQA Engineer This whitepaper describes Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC clustering and replication technologies. It examines EMC's SRDF data replication to disaster recovery sites and provide...
Written by: Thomas Cornely, Senior Product Manager This paper describes the Veritas Storage Foundation™ Dynamic Multi-pathing (DMP) feature that first appeared in DMP release 5.0. It was subsequently backported to the Solaris 4.1 code base in SxRT 4...
A previous Tech Tip talked about the advantages of the N+1 configuration for multinode clustering (read it). It's one reason why IT professionals choose Veritas Cluster Server for high availability solutions. Smart failovers are the best failovers Th...
"The devil is in the details" is certainly true for multinode clustering. More and more enterprises are turning to multinode clustering for their high availability architectures to save on hardware costs, increase overall utilization, and reduce mana...
There’s no doubt that a clustered server configuration plays a vital role in mission-critical application environments. It keeps applications running by failing over applications to servers in the same data center or at remote disaster recovery sites...
