Starting from Storage Foundation 6.0.1, one of feature that was introduced is Dynamic Reconfiguration tool. From my point of view, this feature is extremely useful because avoiding any kind of service interruption. Dynamic Multi-Pathing provides a Dy...
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...
The next versions of Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) and VOM Advanced (available within this year), will have exciting new features, including: Multi-tenancy management: Test the ability to create and manage groups of servers/clusters/arrays and...
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...
The Storage Foundation High Availability Product Management team is pleased to announce the upcoming SFHA 6.1 Beta Program. SFHA 6.1 is focused on I/O Optimization, reduction of infrastructure, and unparalleled availability of mission critical appli...
One of the new features that has been introduced within Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA 6.0.1 is I/O Shipping. This new feature improves resiliency across Cluster File System nodes reducing downtime and improving resiliency. I/O Shipping is...
I have faced Replication in Passthru mode twice, Once it happened at one of our client and then I faced it at my Internal office. Firstly I read in detail what is the root cause of replication to enter into Passthru mode. This is the summary of why t...
REPLICATION ENVIRONMENT: OS Version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) SF Version: 5.0 ======================================================================= Replication Status shows inconsistent and timestamp i...
Regulatory compliance is a critical factor in the development of an IT Business Continuity strategy. The requirements vary across industry sectors and geographies. It is also worth noting that not all regulations may apply in a specific business situ...
Recently I had experienced that one of my client was facing the RVG state is in passthru state means "A SAN disk that was part of an SRL volume started logging I/O errors on the host and VVR went into pass thru mode" ""More Details of Problem"" As fa...
REPLICATION ENVIRONMENT: OS Version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga) SF Version: 5.0 PROBLEM: Replication Status: paused due to error (secondary log error) Disk State: State is FAILING in vxprint Replicatio...
In the systems world, customers have use cases to migrate from AIX Operating System to Linux in their Enterprise or Mission Critical Data Center. The key challenge with such a migration is to move production data seamlessly with very minimal downtime...
Last week Veritas Cluster Server 6.0.2 for Linux (and 6.0.1 for Windows) was released with new features to allow application failover in VMware environments. Basically that means VCS running in the guest but with a full integration with VMware, which...
Problem Java is embedded within the Commandcentral Storage (CCS) application and requires manual steps to upgrade to work with the application. Error There are many vulnerability scans that can alert to vulnerabilities in a Java / JRE version and ...
Introduction As we know, Symantec VBS provides start-stop, fault-management and disaster-recovery capabilities for business services with multiple tiers running in heterogeneous platforms e.g. database tier running in AIX, application tier running in...
Problem Java is embedded within the Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) application and requires manual steps to upgrade to work with the application. Error There are many scans that can alert to vulnerabilities in a Java / JRE version and a patch...
Problem CommandCentral Storage (CCS) 5.2 Release Update (RU) 4 contains a code change to alter the default directory for backing up the Sybase ASA database prior to upgrade for preservation of a known good copy of the database until the upgrade is ...
There has been some confusion on the ability to deploy a VCS Agent with ApplicationHA. The official ApplicationHA agents have additional functionality to provide wizard-based application configurations such as configuring a service group by discoveri...
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...
There are quite a few disk group types and some are similarly named between UNIX and Windows, but have different meaning, so this article aims to clarify the different types which are as follows: Root/Boot disk group (rootdg) in UNIX is an optional...
