As a Disaster Recovery and High-Availability Consultant, I've participated in several disaster recovery exercises, for different customers in different industries, most of them large financial institutions, that are severely regulated here in Brazil ...
Disaster Recovery Advisor (DRA) monitors and analyzes the high availability and disaster recovery environment and provides a portal for users to view and understand the HA/DR risks in their storage, servers, databases, clusters, and replication envir...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
With a 53% share of the virtualization market, VMware is hot. For IT managers looking to squeeze the most out of racks of servers, it’s the solution of choice. VMware includes features to boost availability, but a complete high availability/disaster ...
