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.
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.