Written by: Jeffrey Armorer, Technical Product Manager, Symantec Storage and Availability Management Group Introduction Multi-pathing software provides the intelligence necessary to manage multiple I/O paths between a server and a storage subsystem...
Written by: Karthik Ramamurthy, Technical Product Manager and David Noy, Sr. Product Manager Cluster File System Introduction The fundamental properties of CFS including access to shared file systems by applications running on all nodes of the cluste...
Written by: Venkata Reddy Chappavarapu, Sr. Software Engineer, Symantec Data Center Management Group Introduction Many organizations rely on SAP applications to support vital business processes. Any disruption of these services translates directly i...
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...
1. Overview TIBCO Enterprise Message Service (EMS) is a leader in enterprise messaging platforms. EMS allows for efficient system-to-system communications across different technologies. The communication may occur synchronously or asynchronously. Alt...
Introduction This white paper focuses on the performance and scalability of Veritas Cluster File System 5.0 in two workloads – a sequential write workload and an NFS file serving workload – in a configuration running from 1 to 16 nodes. The white pap...
Written by: Oscar Wahlberg and David Noy, Symantec Storage and Server Management Group Introduction SAP NetWeaver suite is a suite of business products that is designed to support complete business management tasks of a corporation, company or insti...
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...
The attached White Paper describes how DR testing currently works and how new tools like Disaster Recovery Advisor can improve the process.
Written by: Sean Derrington, Josh Kahn, Paul Massiglia This Symantec Yellow Book describes how to standardize storage configuration and administration across all of a data center's platforms to result in better quality of service at lower administr...
Introduction This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numb...
High-availability solutions are essential to maintain business continuity in today’s 24x7 environment. This article discusses strategies for high availability and how IT departments can determine the right solutions for their critical applications. ...
Written By: DCIG LLC Abstract File-based virtualization solutions, like VMware ESX Server, are best suited to low-impact file, print and web services. For applications and databases, you need a block-based virtualization system designed for high perf...
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 ...
Current Business Scenario: The current recessionary economic cycle has introduced a great deal of uncertainty into the business climate. Organizations are reluctant to spend any more money than absolutely necessary, which has limited or delayed the a...
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...
Introduction This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numb...
Written by: Naveen Williams, Principal SQA Engineer This whitepaper describes Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC clustering and replication technologies. It examines EMC's SRDF data replication to disaster recovery sites and provide...
Written by: Thomas Cornely, Senior Product Manager This paper describes the Veritas Storage Foundation™ Dynamic Multi-pathing (DMP) feature that first appeared in DMP release 5.0. It was subsequently backported to the Solaris 4.1 code base in SxRT 4...
