Get even more out of SmartIO
In earlier post in the series, we have learnt about various file system level settings to get more out of SmartIO. But many times a single file system has files and folders with different access chara...
Blog Articles
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...
Get More Out Of SmartIO
In Ryan’s blog post, we have seen benefits provided by SmartIO in today’s datacenter where SSDs are becoming more and more prevelant. Sumit in his blog has provided more details about SmartAssist tool...
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...
Encryption of Data at Rest
Encryption of the Data at Rest with FIPS certified Veritas Cryptographic Module Product: Veritas™ InfoScale 7.1 Do I really need encryption? It was 4 AM in the morning and my friend, the owner of a we...
Scale compute and storage independently with InfoScale Storage 7.1
InfoScale storage's flexible storage sharing feature (FSS) allows pooling and sharing of storage resources among various compute entities whether they are physical machines, virtual machine or a mix o...
Veritas InfoScale™ Storage Backend for Red Hat Virtualization
A Red Hat Virtualization Environment (RHEV) consists of a set of Red Hat Virtualization Hypervisors (either RHEL-H or RHEV-H) managed by a centralized management server RHEV-Manager (RHEV-M). The RHEV...
Veritas InfoScale Across VMware Virtual SAN
Since I wrote the Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA on VMware VMDK Deployment Guide we have seen a lot of deployments using that architecture. Given that both Veritas and VMware have evolved t...
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...
Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools(SORT) coming online
The new Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website https://sort.veritas.com has been online since Sept 28, 2015. Then we reached several milestones in the following week. Achieved ...
