Achieving High Availability with Oracle and VMware: VCS 6.0.2
Last week Veritas Cluster Server 6.0.2 for Linux(and 6.0.1 for Windows) was released with new features to allow application failover in VMware environments. Basically that means VCS running in the guest but with a full integration with VMware, which means that capabilities like vMotion and DRS are allowed.Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA on VMware VMDK Deployment Guide
Storage Foundation Cluster File System (CFS) provides several advantages over a traditional file system when running in a VMware guest OS. The primary benefit is that multiple virtual servers (up to 64) using CFS can simultaneously access data residing on the same physical LUN or virtual disk.
Overview of the Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server 6.1 Beta Program
The Storage Foundation High Availability Product Management team is pleased to announce the upcomingSFHA 6.1 Beta Program. SFHA 6.1 is focused on I/O Optimization, reduction of infrastructure, and unparalleled availability of mission critical applications while allowing customers to take advantage of new and continuing trends in the Data Center.Avoiding Service Interruption with I/O Shipping Technology
One of the new features that has been introduced within Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA 6.0.1 is I/O Shipping. This new feature improves resiliency across Cluster File System nodes reducing downtime and improving resiliency. I/O Shipping is about being able to ship I/O from one cluster node to another when a problem in the I/O path occurs.Do you believe your DR will work in a case of a disaster?
As a Disaster Recovery and High-Availability Consultant, I've participated in several disaster recovery exercises, for different customers in different industries, most of them large financial institutions, that are severely regulated here in Brazil and, I believe, all around the world.Convert existing VMware RDMs to VMDKs without downtime
One of the requested operations that seems to be popular at the moment is how to migrate existing RDMs to VMDKs, especially more so since Veritas Cluster Server 6.0.x now supports VMDKs . In this two part article we shall take a look on how to achieve this with the first part highlighting how to convert RDMs to VMDKs on a standalone VM with minimal downtime using Storage Foundation.
Use Cases Of Symantec VBS In Pure VMware environments
Introduction As we know, Symantec VBS provides start-stop, fault-management and disaster-recovery capabilities for business services with multiple tiers running in heterogeneous platforms e.g. database tier running in AIX, application tier running in Solaris, web tier running in VMware VM.
