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...
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...
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...
Today's data centers have become highly evolved, with virtualization being widely deployed and many organizations starting to move toward the cloud. These technologies offer tremendous benefits such as increased flexibility, reduced capital and opera...
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 ...
If you have ever evacuated disks in Veritas, every so often this will happen to hang. Usually you terminate your session or who knows what. It happens, you can't explain it, you move on. vxtask list shows no tasks, but you get errors trying to rer...
Executive Summary This white paper proposes an approach to building resilient private clouds in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This idealized architecture incorporates solutions that address cloud server and storage needs and reconciles the...
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 ...
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 ...
Introduction Multi-pathing software provides the intelligence necessary to manage multiple I/O paths between a server and a storage subsystem. Without multi-pathing software, the server operating system presents applications with multiple images of ...
Introduction With the move to virtual server environments accelerating, businesses are faced with several new challenges. More of a communal society, server virtualization takes advantage of sharing of common resources among many different operating...
Why Microsoft® and Symantec With the growing selection of virtualization solutions, companies are finding it more difficult to choose the data center option that is best for their environment. It is easy for organizations to gravitate towards the bi...
A VMware and Symantec Technical White Paper Challenges Using Traditional High Availability Solutions Within any business, a number of applications exist that are critical to the success of the business. As a result, these applications and the system...
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...
