Introduction This paper describes how to configure and use Veritas Storage Foundation in a VMware ESX environment. Because most features in Storage Foundation are supported in a VMware environment, this paper focuses on the features that work differe...
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 ...
Applicable Releases: VCS One 2.0 & 2.0RU1 10/5/2009 VCS One Backup and Recovery After implementing VCS One it’s important to have a good data protection plan to protect your Policy Master. The following discusses best practices for backing up the ...
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 today’s article we will discuss a Basic and quick Replication Setup on two nodes. I have done this on Red Hat enterprise4 update 4 and the Storage foundation version is 4.1 with replication license. Prerequisite a.) Linux operating System...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
Historically, administrators have protected servers and applications by backing up data to tape. Although regular tape backups are essential, recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives cannot always be met by traditional backup solution...
Many of us who have been working with netbackup for a long time come across a situation where we need to work on Netbackup that is configured with VCS. Not everyone who knows Netbackup would necessarily know VCS. So here is a small overview of VCS an...
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 ...
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...
A customer at a large bank was having a problem mounting the file system in Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC. He was unable to access his database, so he called Symantec tech support. Mani, a technical support engineer, responded to his cal...
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...
A mobile phone company had a problem with its billing database locking up. The company was running Oracle Real Application Clusters with Storage Foundation. The storage device would stop processing, and IT would have to restart the machine, a process...
Written by: Bruce Naegel, Sr. Product Manager Maximizing the value of existing hardware investments has never been a bad idea. Perhaps never before has it also been such a good idea. Today's IT organizations are up against a wall. It's not just that ...
