Clustering for Operational Efficiencies
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The Evolution of Clustering
Many of today’s clustering solutions were devised back in the early to mid-1990s and were predicated on the SCSI technology of the day. In the SCSI world, you couldn’t have more than two servers conne...
Business interrupted
Author’s Note: It’s come to our attention that while this is primarily a technical blog geared towards current users of Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), there are some readers of this blog with little ba...
CFS Scalability White Paper is online
Please find the scalabiltiy white paper which was refered to in the previous post here: http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/white_papers/ent-whitepaper_cluster_file_performance_scalability_12...
CFS scalability results are in
The question: Is CFS scalable? What performance hit is there from running VxFS in a clustered configuration? Often times in sales situations, we are asked what the performance implications are of runn...
Welcome to the Cluster FIle System Blog
Hello all! Welcome to the Cluster File System blog. This blog will serve as a sounding board for engineering and product management to discuss their views on cluster file systems: What are they good f...
Benchmark Results show VxFS faster than ZFS
Last week Symantec published some benchmark results comparing Storage Foundations and ZFS that suggest VxFS is around 3 times faster than ZFS for workloads typical of many commercial applications. The...
Configuring online array support using Array Policy Module (APM)
Array Policy Module (APM) ===================== The APM framework was introduced in Volume Manager 4.0 release. The 4.0 release brought about a major change in DMP architecture - the introduction of A...
Sun's Comparision of VxFS and ZFS Scalability is Flawed
Some engineers at Sun promoting ZFS have been publishing comparisons between VxFS and ZFS that are rather unflattering to VxFS. You can read the most recent white papers they've published comparing ZF...
Storage Management Essentials for Business
Storage capacity requirements are growing at an explosive rate, complicating data and storage management in mission-critical and compliance-driven environments. Enterprises need to securely store more...
