EXCERPT FROM SYMANTEC WHITE PAPER Businesses today are spending millions of dollars to develop and maintain disaster recovery (DR) infrastructures that will ensure business continuity. But despite such huge investments of time and resources, most IT...
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...
A system administrator can create a Solaris Logical Domains (LDoms) server farm that allows for rapid instance provisioning, significantly less storage consumption, greater instance resiliency and true pooled storage across all instances regardless o...
This document provides a detailed overview of the VxVM device naming and reporting enhancements implemented in Storage Foundation 5.0 MP3 for Unix and Linux. Improving Efficiency with Device Naming Consistency As configurations in the datacenter scal...
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...
This IDC whitepaper examines the various architectural approaches to ensuring application uptime and availability, particularly a clustered file system approach with clustered services. The paper also looks at the role of Symantec's Veritas Storage ...
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...
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...
What is FileConnect? FileConnect is the Symantec site from which business customers download product binaries. Its url is http://fileconnect.symantec.com Logging in to FileConnect requires a serial number; that serial number is not the product lic...
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...
This white paper discusses various configuration scenarios and the corresponding workflows for setting up Sun Logical domains (LDoms) to deploy Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SFRAC). The scenarios in the white paper describe the deploymen...
There are some fundamental trends in the IT marketplace that are going to force organisations of all sizes to reconsider how they provide IT services to their respective businesses. Operational costs are outstripping capital outlay and power consumpt...
By: Terri McClure, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. Keeping Pace with Data Growth Continues to be a Top Storage Challenge The management of file-based or “unstructured” content (i.e., multimedia files, Web pages, office productivity documents, et...
IDC Vendor Spotlight By Noemi Greyzdorf Transactional application availability is more important than ever to businesses in a globalized economy. This Vendor Spotlight examines the various architectural approaches to ensuring application uptime and ...
Would you like to split up a Sun server to deploy multiple Oracle environments, with each one isolated and behaving like a separate box? This whitepaper covers how to create virtualized Oracle servers utilizing Solaris Zones and make them completely ...
FAQs and Myths for Storage Foundation Keys Keys have gotten simpler, but explanations and awareness haven’t kept up June 16, 2009 To start, let’s review the difference between a license and a key, as the two terms are often (but incorrectly) used in...
Created by: Chang Jung and Steve Sundstrom Abstract The Veritas product installer for Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0MP3 on Solaris provides support for Solaris JumpStart. The Solaris JumpStart feature is a customizable automat...
I started my career way back in 1997, with SCO Unix environment supporting again the banking IT application, like Foxpro, Novell Lan and other standalone applications which were important for the banking environment. I’m just trying to share the exp...
