OpenStack and You! It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that OpenStack adoption is on an upward trajectory—be it private or public cloud, OpenStack is getting there! Large enterprises such as BMW and eBay making the jump proves that point an...
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...
Late last year (2014) Symantec announced a joint partnership with HP to develop a new Disaster Recovery as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution based on HP Helion OpenStack® cloud. This joint venture offering is known as “HP Helion and Veritas Continuity”. We...
Red Hat and Symantec together offer enterprise IT organizations a highly available and highly scalable virtualization infrastructure for traditional and cloud-enabled applications. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization provides an enterprise-ready virtu...
It’s been a while coming but I’ve finally got some time to write this article on protecting vCenter Server availability. It’s probably also come as an opportune time as not so long ago VMware announced the end of availability of vCenter Heartbeat so ...
Since v5.1 of vSphere, VMware have focused on providing web based management for the vSphere environment, with v5.5 more functionality has been placed into the vSphere Web Client to bring its capabilities on par to that of the Windows based vSphere C...
Microsoft Hyper-V becomes the latest platform to be added to the ApplicationHA support matrix. With the release of ApplicationHA 6.1 Microsoft Windows 2012 & 2012 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled now joins VMware vSphere, Solaris LDOMs, Redhat KVM an...
This white paper describes how to configure Oracle VM for SPARC logical domains with multiple I/O domains with Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA). The logical domains are managed by Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) installed in the...
Application and infrastructure availability is a key consideration in today's modern business continuity strategies for SAP cloud infrastructures stretched across distances. In traditional infrastructure designs for SAP high availability, workloads a...
Provided within this document are the steps necessary to create a highly available Solaris zone environment using Cluster File System HA 6.0. Additional content includes advanced provisioning techniques using Storage Foundation Space Optimized Snaps...
One of the requested operations that seems to be popular at the moment is how to migrate existing RDMs to VMDKs, especially more so since Veritas Cluster Server 6.0.x now supports VMDKs . In this two part article we shall take a look on how to achie...
Storage Foundation Cluster File System (CFS) provides several advantages over a traditional file system when running in a VMware guest OS. The primary benefit is that multiple virtual servers (up to 64) using CFS can simultaneously access data resi...
Are you setting up Veritas Cluster Server in VMware vSphere? Below is a technical guide to walk you through the process such as configuring Veritas Cluster Server clusters across ESX hosts and the compatibility of VCS with VMware HA. Contents includ...
Executive Summary The modern data center is more often than not heterogeneous in terms of hardware, software, operating systems and is moving toward virtualization and cloud technologies. While heterogeneity along with virtual and cloud platforms off...
Whilst presenting to various customers and at many conferences about Symantec ApplicationHA solution, I often hear questions about the availability of a virtualized vCenter Server. There are various options available if your system is sitting on phys...
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...
George Winter's BIO: George Winter has over 20 years of IT experience. His current focus is on the technical aspects of Symantec NetBackup. Prior to joining Symantec, he was a System Support Engineer and Systems Engineer at Sun Microsystems, a Syst...
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...
