Features you want in a comprehensive service Asset Recovery In the previous blog we touched upon the manageability aspect of HP Helion and Veritas Continuity solution. As a continuation to the blog series, we bring yet another edition highlight...
Problem CommandCentral Storage (CCS) 5.2 Release Update (RU) 4 contains a code change to alter the default directory for backing up the Sybase ASA database prior to upgrade for preservation of a known good copy of the database until the upgrade is ...
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...
In our first SFHA Reconnect events we discuss how one can achieve very high SLAs such as Oracle recovery in the time frame of 1-2 minutes and in many cases less than a minute without the cost and complexity of RAC. The attached paper shows how thi...
Moving massive blocks of data In February 2007, a large e-commerce company decided to migrate its transaction databases from five storage arrays into one big one. "Big" may be something of an understatement: this company had about 206 TB of data. It ...
Many servers fail at once A financial company suddenly started having trouble with its servers—a large number of them, all at once. Instead of starting up normally, they would begin loading and just hang. The company was using Veritas Storage Foundat...
