IHACr who wants to Implement a Windows SFHA Cluster with a shared vmdk disk. They have procured the SFHA Windows license. The Cluster nodes/VM's will be hosted on seperate ESX hosts. Few questions: a) Is this configuration (shared vmdk) supported in ...
Hi, We have the below details. OS- Win 2008 R2 Ent. Disk - One Disk (Disk0). VVR - VVR 6.0 Now, we want to uninstall the VVR 6 from the server as there is some License issue. What precuation do we need before uninstall. Is there any chances of HDD d...
Hi i would like to know when SQL 2012 will be supported with HA Console wizard. we need to implement VCS SQL 2012 in a VMware environment so we can use VCS with VMotion, DRS, etc... i know that i can configure VCS Cluster manually without a wizard bu...
Hi, We have the following license:- 1.VRTS STORAGE FOUNDATION 6.0 WIN FOR OS TIER STANDARD EDITION PER SERVER STD LIC EXPRESS BAND S 2.VRTS STORAGE FOUNDATION OPTION VOLUME REPLICATOR 6.0 WIN FOR OS TIER STANDARD EDITION PER SERVER STD LIC EXPRESS B...
Hi , Can someone pls tell me what advantage I will be getting If I install VSF for Windows on a virtual machine running Windows 2008. Just curious to know. Thanks in Advantage. Deepak Anand
Hi, having implemented a two-node Server 2008 R2-based MSCS with multipathing (MS MPIO) I experienced some problems to create dynamic disk cluster group while configuring SFW. Doing some tests, also with SCSIcmd tool, I was able to identify the multi...
Here is the list of top Technotes for the past quarter. Please make sure to browse the list first before you post a question here on Connect, as you may find an answer to the product issue you are seeing. Late Breaking News (LBN) Veritas Storage Foun...
Hello, I am in the middle of engineering a new build for my company and we are rolling out Vertias Storage Foundation for Windows 5.1 SP2 to all new servers going forward (R2 SP1). One of the things I have noticed when Veritas has been installed is t...
Hi all, I was playing around with the flashsnap option (on windows SFHA for Windows 5.1 SP1) and created 3 schedules. Now I want to delete these but can't seem to do that. When I right click and delete the schedule it says "OK" but it stills shows in...
Hi, I'm in the middle of a proposal and the customer ask us to describe the way (step by step) to migrate their MSCS (2003) to SFWHA (VCS)? do you know if Symantec has a procedure? Any recommendation? The customer requires minimal impact and smooth p...
I have a two (2) node MS Cluster, each running Storage Foundations for Windows 5.1 and Windows 2003 R2. the volumes within the disk groups are striped. I am migrating to a new SAN and no longer need striping. Am I able to evacuate each disk from a s...
Hi, Does FastResync in Storage Foundation for Windows 5.1 SP1 track the changes between regular mirrors in a volume (not snapshot mirrors)? My customer uses SFW to mirror large volumes between two data centres, and he wants a quick resync of these vo...
I'm trying to determine if when using a 3rd-party DSM does VCS still support SCSI-3 PGR? When using a DMP DSM then SCSI-3 PGR is supported, but does this carry over when using a 3rd party DSM, in particular, the IBM SDD DSM? Thanks...Mark
dear all, I would like to know if io fencing disk-based and server-based exist on SFWHA 5.1 ? I cannot find any information about it in the different guides. thanks, Hervé
Hi. We want to use Storage Foundation 5.1 to manage our dual path disk. We are clustering MS BizTalk 2006 so we need to use MSCS to Cluster BizTalk. Problem is that MSCS cannot see the disk group created in SF. We are using Windows 2003 Enterpris...
Good Morning, We have set up a RAID 10 using SFW using several SSD drives and are running into some read performance issues. We believe that the Device Type detection in SFW is partly to blame. Our SSD drives are PCI bus (FusionIO) based and are ...
Hi, We're using SFW on systems with FC attachment (SAN) to EMC and NetApp storages, in the initial testing phase we had both storages appear with Active/Active balancing policies but after upgrade to 5.1(from 5.0) all NetApp's devices shows up with F...
We are testing snapshot backups (using NetBackup) in a new environment (working fine in other installations). Snapstart was done on volume, waited for sync to complete and backup started. Backup process does the snapshot and mount of snapvol. Backup ...
I'm unable to extend my system/boot volume using SF 5. Presumably due to the original disk being basic then converted etc. Is there another product that can accomplish this or a workaround? Thanks, Pedro Environment: Dell PERC 4/SC array 204GB RAI...
Since this file server it is not version R2, Windows can only natively manage quotas for entire volumes. We need to manage quotas by directory. Is Storage Exec 5.5 the most cost effective current product for 1 server? Does it work well?
