Storage Foundation for Windows and Microsoft for Hyper-V, Displace VMware? See what Jerome Wendt says…
Check out DCIG lead analyst Jerome Wendt's new series of blog posts talking about Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows and Server Virtualization. Part 1: Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows Looks to make Server Virtualization a Two-Horse Race
New Release: Introducing Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server 5.1
Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 are now available to customers. Below are a few key areas of innovation that you can expect in version 5.1: Zero reboot install and zero reboot upgrade to version 5.1:
New Release: Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) 3.0
Veritas Operations Manager centralizes visibility and control, ensures availability , scales operations, optimizes storage and maintains compliance across your server and storage assets. Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) 3.0 release includes: Central Management Server on Solaris, Linux & WindowsAnswers to Common VCS One Questions
A few weeks back a large number of Product Managers, Technical Product Managers, and Sales Engineers (SEs) gathered for our annual SE Symposium in Las Vegas. VCS One was definitely on everyone's mind, especially with the upcoming 5.0 release. Here's a summary of the Q & A from the VCS One sessions I attended.Best Practices for Storage Management and High Availability in your Microsoft Data Center
“Best Practices for Storage Management and High Availability in your Microsoft Data Center” is now available online in the Things You Need to Know section of the Windows IT Pro website and is also in the September 2009 issue of Windows IT Pro.
New Release: Veritas Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE CE 5.0
Symantec recently announced the release of Veritas Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE CE 5.0. Sybase ASE Cluster Edition (ASE CE) uses a shared-disk architecture designed to support up to 32 ASE server instances that simultaneously access a SAN.Understanding Veritas Cluster Server Limits and Prerequisites
A very useful - yet often overlooked - feature of Veritas Cluster Server is Limits and Prerequisites. This feature is often used in conjunction with Service Group Workload Management (SGWM), but can also be implemented on its own. In this post, I'll describe what this feature does and how you can put it to use.Customer Spotlight: Storage Foundation Reduced Data Migration Time From 3 Weeks To 30 Minutes
A group of DBAs that manage large databases at a large federal government agency had the challenge of migrating a mission-critical 35 TB database from a Fujitsu 2500 running Solaris to an IBM P595 running AIX within a 4 hour maintenance window. Using the tools that the database vendor offered, the estimated time to move that much data was in the neighborhood of 3 weeks, which was unacceptable.Reducing the cost of high availability with larger clusters
Hello from the Storage Foundation/High Availability Technical Product Management team, and welcome to the new Symantec Connect! In this first VCS blog entry under the new format, we'll take a look at reducing the cost of HA by building larger, more "intelligent" clusters.
