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Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) is a new feature introduced in Symantec Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) 6.1. CVM is a new way to manage storage in a clustered environment. With CVM, failover capabilities are available at the volume level. Volumes ...
When the application failover happens in VMware Guest enviorments, the VCS is responsible for failing over the application to other vm/vcs node on diffrent ESX host. In a scenario where the ESX/ESXi host itself faults, the VCS agents begin to fail...
The following Virtual Business Services (VBS) features are available in the 6.1 release: VBS can remain operational in spite of a tier failureAbility to run custom script on service groupsVBS status tracking This article provides a brief overview of ...
The Symantec High Availability Configuration wizard was introduced in the Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) 6.0.2 release. In the SFHA 6.0.2 release, the following applications were supported in a VMware virtual environment: Generic ...
Introduced in this release, the SmartIO feature enables efficient use of your solid-state drives through data caching. SmartIO improves application performance by maximizing the number of application Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) that can...
The Oracle Cluster Services Synchronization daemon (CSSD) agent is no longer a generic Application agent. It now has its own CSSD type definition that makes resource configuration simpler and more flexible. After you upgrade to Storage Foundation and...
You can define extended attributes that provide additional information about Veritas Operations Manager objects. This information is available in addition to the details that Veritas Operations Manager discovers for the object. You can use the Manage...
A Business Application is a logical collection of objects that constitutes a unit of management in Veritas Operations Manager. In Veritas Operations Manager, you can create a Business Application to monitor the status of a set of associated objects ...
A file system is assigned a specific size as soon as it is created. However, the file system may become too small or too large as changes in file system usage take place over time. For example, when you add or grow storage LUNs, more storage is avail...
Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) 3.9 introduces several new features and benefits. More product support Now you can: Run the SORT data collector in a Veritas Operations Manager environment.Look up patches for Symantec Disaster Recove...
Hello, With VxVM, we get ‘vxdmppr’ utility which performs SCSI 3 PR operations on the disks similar to sg_persist on Linux. But we don’t find much documentation around this utility. In one of the blogs we saw that its unsupported utility. Can someone...
The vxcdsconvert command makes disks and disk groups portable between systems running VxVM with the Cross-platform Data Sharing (CDS) feature. For more information on the CDS feature, see: Overview of the CDS featureSetting up your system to use CDS ...
Virtual Business Services (VBS) is a feature that represents a multi-tier application as a single consolidated entity in Veritas Operations Manager (VOM). It builds on the high availability and disaster recovery features provided by Symantec products...
You can use file compression to decrease the size of the Veritas Operations Manager files and thus reduce the amount of disk space used by the files. Veritas Operations Manager lets you view the disk space saved by viewing the Savings by File System ...
The Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions 6.0.2 for Linux release provides VMware vSphere-integrated options to monitor the status of the following applications: OracleSAP Web ASWebSphere MQGeneric applications The Symante...
The Symantec FileStore 5.7 MP1 release introduced the following new features: IPv6 support - support for IP version 6 (IPv6) IP addresses.Bandwidth throttle - allows customers to effectively manage bandwidth allocation for replication operations, thu...
Thin provisioning helps you save SAN/NAS storage space. In thin provisioning, instead of provisioning full storage space to a user, the thin provisioning software allocates disk space in a flexible manner based on the minimum space that is required b...
The SFHA Solutions 6.0.1 release introduces the following: SFHA Solutions for Linux now supports: Kernel-based virtual machines (KVM) in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) environments.Virtual to virtual (in-guest) clusteringEnhanced support for ...
Hi, My name is Tariq Pathan and i am a new joinee to the Symantec education team. I would be working on the Storage and Foundation and Clustering File System. I am new to storage domain, and hence was inquisitive to learn and quickly understand SF an...
