Erasure coding for data storage - Primer
Background Hardware failure is common and the most common cause among them is disk failure be it SSD or HDD – about 80% of all failures. With such failure prone hardware, data protection has always be...
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Quality of Service - Maxiops SLA
Data centers today service multiple independent applications which share storage resources. Unless applications are completely isolated from one another, whenever they vie for a shared resource, conte...
Docker Recognizes VxFS as backing filesystem to Docker daemon
Docker has a capability to specify custom filesystem to use as the root of the Docker runtime. This can be achieved by using the -g option when starting the Docker daemon. The Veritas File System (VxF...
Need for advanced storage QoS in OpenStack
The cost of cloud services is claimed to be lower due to extensive sharing of resources. However, a higher degree of sharing would automatically mean less guarantees of performance, since performance ...
SmartIO blueprints, assessment guide and deployment guide
SmartIO was introduced in Storage Foundation HA 6.1. SmartIO enables data efficiency on your SSDs through I/O caching. Using SmartIO to improve efficiency, you can optimize the cost per Input/Output O...
September 2014: Most Popular Content in the Storage and Clustering Community
Here is some of September 2014's most viewed content in the Storage and Clustering community: VCS Cluster not Starting. Configuring Redis High Availability How to Check VCS Version and Update Veritas ...
May 2014: Most Popular Content in the Storage and Clustering Community
Here is May 2014's most viewed content in the Storage and Clustering community: Symantec Vision: Announcing Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Veritas disk group disabled Flexible Storage Sharing: Introdu...
Remove the Rust: Unlock DAS and go SAN-Free
With the release of Symantec Storage Foundation 6.1, Symantec Cluster File System HA enables customers to take internal storage and "share" that storage across any node in the cluster with the Flexibl...
Oct 2013: Most Popular Content in the Storage and Clustering Community
Here is October 2013's Most Popular Content in the Storage and Clustering community: Top Viewed Content http://www.symantec.com/connect/videos/vcs-application-failover-within-vmware-virtual-machines h...
Data Center Down - The Crash Blog Series: Oracle Open World
In a departure from our regular technical content, we will be featuring a new guest blog series on Connect. Please help us in welcoming Crash - the star of the Data Center Down! video. I went to Oracl...
