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Resolved! Tricky Volume Group cration question

Hello,   We would like to have  2 RDM attached to a VM. Is it possible to keep same volume group name ? The reason why I'm asking is that.  SAN team will do the frame base copy time to time from RDM1 to RDM2 so I can't have different volume group n...

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! Adding a single disk to a DG

Hello, We need to bring a disk to veritas volume manger, but disk has data on it. Is it possible to bring inside  veritas volume manager? I am afraid that it will delete the data from the disk. Am I right? OS : Windows 2008  R2  

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! Improving disk mirroring

Hi Need some advice improving disk mirroring using SFW. According to the documentation you use “Configuration task performance tuning” for migrations only. Can it be used to improve day to disk mirroring? We already disabled Task Throttling and en...

Resolved! File System Strink on Windows

Hello, We have windows system and it the first VG, we have  3 volumes and once is for C drive, other one for E drive and other one for Swap.  Can we strink E drive and add more space to C drive? Would it cause any problem? This is my plan. 1. Unmo...

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! disk doesn't show up

Hi Team,   With regards to above change was implemented last week end, Change of the ports (Removing the old ports, adding the new one).   SAN end the new ports has been added & old one removed, after this some of the Disks were failed the after ...

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Resolved! Cluster dynamic disk group in VirtualBox

Has anyone being able to get cluster dynamic disk groups working in VirtualBox.  I have SFWHA 5.1 installed on W2003 and I can create a normal dynamic disk group, but I cannot create a cluster dynamic disk group on a fixed size shared disk - I get er...

mikebounds by Level 6
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Resolved! Windows File System Increase

Hello, In Unix and Linux after we extended the Volume on Diskgroup, we need to resize the filesystem.  How about in Windows, after we increase the volume, do we need to resize the file system? If so, how do we do it? Thanks in advance.  

mokkan by Level 6
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Resolved! Blue Disk Icon in SFWHA against disk

I would like to know whether the blue information icon that I am seeing on the passive node of a sfwha cluster will clear when a failover is initiated. The issue has arisen following a recent disk expansion which all went well apart from the odd iss...

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Resolved! How to configure NBU service group in GCO with VVR

Discussion split off from https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/gco-configuration-between-2-nodes-cluster-and-1node-cluster: I have configured - site 2 with 1 node cluster - I have install the SFWHA6.1 software and created dynamic disk grou...

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Adding a new disk to VG

Hello,   We recently moved moved our stoage and they assigned new to LUN to our host, but  in VG it is holding the old LUN. We are running windows 2008. How do we remove the old lun and add the new LUN to the VG?   Thank you.    

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Resolved! EMC CX4 to EMC VNX LUN Migration

I have a few challenges I've stumbled onto in regards to a LUN migration involving Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1, a product I am unfamiliar with. I need to migrate the data/luns on the server that our mail archiving system (NearPoint Mimosa) is on f...

Resolved! VVR -DCM log fails to completely drain

Hi  My replication runs fine for an day or two. Then replication stops.  DCM log stuck on 2% and grows. Article:TECH55550 it’s because of an SRL overflow. To resolve we need to disable access to the volume. We cannot do this every second day. Thi...

Resolved! Mirror across options for mirrored volumes

During creation of mirrored volumes, you can choose to Mirror across disks by Port, Target, Enclosure, or Channel. I am not able to find in-depth information for these options. I do understand that if you have two enclosures, and you choose to mirror...

Resolved! Volume drive letters are not enumerated

Hello, I have a two node failover cluster which is running SQL Server 2008R2. The OS on the nodes is Server 2008 R2, and we are utilizing Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows 6.0.1 The issue is that at failover from Node01 to Node02, the Dynamic...