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 ...
A previous Tech Tip talked about the advantages of the N+1 configuration for multinode clustering (read it). It's one reason why IT professionals choose Veritas Cluster Server for high availability solutions. Smart failovers are the best failovers Th...
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...
"The devil is in the details" is certainly true for multinode clustering. More and more enterprises are turning to multinode clustering for their high availability architectures to save on hardware costs, increase overall utilization, and reduce mana...
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 ...
There’s no doubt that a clustered server configuration plays a vital role in mission-critical application environments. It keeps applications running by failing over applications to servers in the same data center or at remote disaster recovery sites...
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 ...
