Veritas Risk Advisor: Working with Reports
Veritas Risk Advisor (VRA) is a data protection and downtime avoidance risk assessment solution that lets you diagnose disaster recovery and high availability (clustering) problems (also called “gaps”) and optimize data protection and reduce the risk of downtime. VRA enables enterprises to effectively manage business continuity implementations to ensure that critical business data is protected. VRA automatically detects and alerts you to any potential gaps, best practice violations, or service level agreement (SLA) breaches. VRA’s Report Generator automatically generates detailed reports describing your configuration and the gaps that it detected from information extracted from the VRA database. VRA allows you generate multiple reports at the same time. Also you can export the content into the MS Word, PDF, and MS Excel format. VRA Report Types VRA has the following reports: Scan Status System Event Log Ticket Details Storage Allocation Optimization Unreplicated Data on Replicated Hosts NetApp Filer Replication Summary Unsynchronized Remote Replication Old Replicas Standby Pairs and so on Report scheduling VRA also lets you schedule when reports are automatically generated and sent to one or more email destinations that you configure. New reports automatically generate each time before they are sent. You may also choose to save the generated reports in the file system and access them later. Learning More For more information on working with Reports, see “VRA reporting” in the Veritas Risk Advisor User’s Guide. You can access the User’s Guide and other VRA documentation in the Documents area of the SORT website.
Managing InfoScale licenses using Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 7.0
Using the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager console, you can view the real-time status of the InfoScale product licenses deployed on the managed hosts. You can view the total number of licenses deployed on the physical as well as virtual hosts along with the chargeable, non-chargeable, and expired licenses. To learn more about InfoScale licensing, pricing and types of Symantec price tiers, see: About Veritas licensing and pricing From Storage Foundation and High Availability 6.0 release onwards, the Symantec Performance Value Unit (SPVU) pricing method was used for Storage Foundation and High Availability products. To know more about InfoScale and the pricing, see: Veritas InfoScale Introduction About Symantec Performance Value Unit About Symantec Performance Value Unit for VMware virtual machines About Symantec Performance Value Unit for Solaris LDOM virtualization server About Symantec Performance Value Unit for kernel-based virtual machines About the Symantec Performance Value Unit for IBM LPAR From Veritas InfoScale Management Server 7.0 release onwards, Veritas uses the per-core licensing pricing method for InfoScale products. The value is calculated by accumulating the total number of cores on the host used by the product. To learn more about the per-core pricing model, see: About per-core licensing You can run reports that provide details on demo licenses, deployments by operating system tier and server tier. You can also run reports for hosts without InfoScale licenses, and to get details about the deployment policies that are violated. Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager documentation can be found on theSORTwebsite.Monitoring risks in Veritas Resiliency Platform
You can use Veritas Resiliency Platform console for risk detection and risk assessment in your environment. Veritas Resiliency Platform notifies you about the vulnerabilities that might impact the recoverability or continuity of your protected assets. Following are some categories of risks that are analyzed by Veritas Resiliency Platform: Risks that may impact the ability to recover and run the application on the recovery site. Risks that may impact the ability to run your applications without disruption either on your production site or on your recovery site. Risks that may impact the ability to fulfill the service level agreements (SLA) for your application. To learn more about risk insight feature and predefined risk signatures in Veritas Resiliency Platform, see: About risk insight Displaying risk information Predefined risks in Veritas Resiliency Platform Veritas Resiliency Platform also enables you to set up the replication lag threshold. Risk insight alerts you when the replication lags beyond the threshold that you specified. To learn more about setting up replication lag threshold, see: Setting up replication lag threshold Risk insight generates two types of risk reports that help you take actions to prevent such risks: Current risk report: Provides the summary and detail information about all the current risks in your data center. Historical risk report: Provides a summary and a detailed analysis of information about the risks in your environment during the specified period. Veritas Resiliency Platform documentation can be found on theSORTwebsite.Need more secure file transfer mechanism for downloading patches
Our company is cracking down on security as a result of the OPM hack. All FTP access is blocked, including ftp://ftp.veritas.com. Can you please make downloads available via https links and provide a way to verify downloads have not been tampered with? e.g. a PGP signature
Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 7.0: Viewing the impact of enabling SmartIO
Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 7.0 enables you to viewthe impact of enabling SmartIO in an interactive graphical format. Using this graph you can see the performance difference in a single view. You can view the following information for a host in a chart: This graph Displays Volumes - Total Bytes Read Number of bytes read from the SmartIO enabled volumes for the specified duration. Disks - Total Bytes Read Number of bytes read from the disks of the SmartIO enabled volumes for the specified duration. You can view the following information for an application in a chart: This graph Displays Volumes - Total Bytes Read Number of bytes read from the SmartIO enabled volumes for the specified duration. Disks - Total Bytes Read Number of bytes read from the disks of the SmartIO enabled volumes for the specified duration. Volumes - Average Read Latency Average read latency for the SmartIO enabled. For more information on SmartIO impactsee the following topic: Viewing the SmartIO Impact analysis chart Storage Foundation and High Availability and Veritas Operations Manager documentation for other releases and platforms can be found on theSORT website.
Veritas InfoScale 7.0: Introducing the Veritas InfoScale product suite
Veritas InfoScale products address enterprise IT service continuity needs. They provide resiliency and software defined storage for critical services across your datacenter infrastructure. The Veritas InfoScale product suite offers the following products: Veritas InfoScale Foundation Veritas InfoScale Availability Veritas InfoScale Storage Veritas InfoScale Enterprise The following products from Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions are rebranded and repackaged under the Veritas InfoScale family: Storage Foundation (SF) Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Cluster Server (VCS) Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS) Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SF Oracle RAC) Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE CE (SFSYBASECE) Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware These changes are intended to simplify the customer buying experience and improve customer life time value. Veritas InfoScale Foundation Veritas InfoScale Foundation simplifies the management of storage across the data center with an efficient application-aware storage management solution. This product works across heterogeneous storage and server environments. It includes features like: Dynamic Multi-pathing Advanced support for virtual storage Veritas InfoScale Storage Veritas InfoScale Storage provides a high-performance storage management solution that maximizes storage efficiency, data availability, operating system agility, and performance. This product works across heterogeneous server and storage environments. It includes the features like: Replication Caching Advanced storage management features like compression, deduplication, thin reclamation, SmartMove, and FileSnap Clustering features Database features like Veritas Extension for ODM, Portable Data Containers, Storage Checkpoints and SmartTier for Oracle Veritas InfoScale Availability Veritas InfoScale Availability is a comprehensive high availability and disaster recovery solution that protects critical business services from planned and unplanned downtime. The critical business services include individual databases, custom applications, and complex multi-tiered applications, which may span across physical and virtual environments and over any distance. It includes the features like: Clustering features high availability (HA) Disaster recovery features (HA/DR) Veritas InfoScale Enterprise Veritas InfoScale Enterprise provides a powerful combination of comprehensive storage management and application availability. With built-in application acceleration, Veritas InfoScale Enterprise lets you optimize data efficiently across heterogeneous storage or server environments and recover applications instantly from downtime. It includes features like: Clustering features including high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) Replication Caching Advanced storage management features like compression, deduplication, thin reclamation, SmartMove, and FileSnap Database features like Veritas Extension for ODM, Portable Data Containers, Storage Checkpoints and SmartTier for Oracle For more information on Veritas InfoScale products, see: About the release About the Veritas InfoScale product suite Mapping of Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) offerings to the new InfoScale Family Entitlement mapping for upgrades from Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) offerings to InfoScale Veritas InfoScale documentation can be found on theSORT website.
InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: Installing InfoScale products in physical and virtual environments
To install the InfoScale products use the product installer or the CLI. Use these methods to install the products in virtual as well as physical environments. In case of virtual environments, whether VMware or Hyper-V, the product installer or the CLI does not differ. The product installer lets you install the product on multiple systems at a time. Whereas, using the CLI you can install the product on a single system at a time. For information about installing the InfoScale products, see: Veritas InfoScale™ Installation and Upgrade Guide The installation guide is common across Windows platform. Virtualization platform-specific installation guides are not applicable on Windows. InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.