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.
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 the SORT 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.
Veritas InfoScale 7.0 (Linux and Windows): Changes in Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware
With the introduction of the Veritas InfoScale 7.0 product family, Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) for VMware is now included as a component in the Veritas InfoScale Foundation, Storage, and Enterprise products. The license for this component is included as a part of the InfoScale license on both Linux and Windows. You can either use the Linux license or the Windows license to enable DMP functionality on the ESXi hypervisor. The DMP for VMware component consists of the following: vSphere offline DMP bundle — DMP components installed on the ESXi hypervisor vSphere UI plug-in — Installed on a Windows physical machine or on a virtual machine and serves as an interface between ESXi and vCenter Remote CLI package — Optional command-line interface to manage ESXi hosts from a Linux system or a Windows system The components can be installed using the command line or the VMware vSphere Update Manager. To install the Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware component on ESXi hosts, use one of the following: Veritas_InfoScale_Dynamic_Multi-Pathing_7.0_VMware.zip Veritas_InfoScale_Dynamic_Multi-Pathing_7.0_VMware.iso For more information on installing the DMP for VMware component, refer to the Dynamic Multi-Pathing 7.0 Installation Guide - VMware ESXi. From this release onwards: 1) DMP for VMware supports SanDisk (FusionIO) PCIe attached SSD cards. 2) The DMP plug-in for the VMware vCenter web client: Displays I/O rate as a line graph. Displays the mapping of LUNs and VMDKs used by a virtual machine. Has a SmartPool tab for a virtual machine for easy configuration of SmartPool assigned to it. No longer requires ESXi login credentials in the Manage Device Support page. For more information about the features and enhancements, refer to the Dynamic Multi-Pathing 7.0 Administrator's Guide - VMware ESXi.
SFHA Solutions 6.2 (AIX and Solaris): Share local storage across the network using Flexible Storage Sharing
Cluster File System (CFS) 6.2 brings the Flexible Storage Sharing (FSS) feature to Solaris and AIX environments, enabling you to share Direct Attached Storage (DAS) across nodes in the cluster to run in SAN-free or hybrid modes. FSS takes advantage of high speed interconnects to allow shared access to local storage enabling you to create logical volumes in both shared and shared-nothing storage configurations, to create a high-performance, highly available shared namespace. With FSS, enterprises can use software to provide data redundancy, high availability, and disaster recovery capabilities, without requiring physically shared storage. For more information about FSS, see: Flexible Storage Sharing use cases Limitations of Flexible Storage Sharing Optimizing storage with Flexible Storage Sharing Installing Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) or Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SF Oracle RAC) automatically enables the FSS feature. No additional installation steps are required. The fencing coordination points can either be SCSI-3 PR capable shared storage or CP servers. For information on administering FSS, see: Administering Flexible Storage Sharing About Flexible Storage Sharing disk support About the volume layout for Flexible Storage Sharing disk groups Setting the host prefix Exporting a disk for Flexible Storage Sharing Setting the Flexible Storage Sharing attribute on a disk group Using the host disk class and allocating storage Administering mirrored volumes using vxassist Displaying exported disks and network shared disk group Installing Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) or Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SF Oracle RAC) automatically enables the FSS feature. No additional installation steps are required. The fencing coordination points can either be SCSI-3 PR capable shared storage or CP servers. For more information on Flexible Storage Sharing, see the following related Symantec Connect articles: Flexible Storage Sharing: DAS Cluster Demo Demo: Adding COmpute Nodes with Flexible Storage Sharing Clustered NFS on DAS Storage Remove the Rust: Unlock DAS and go SAN-Free High Availability and Performance Oracle Configuration with Flexible Storage Sharing in a SAN-Free Environment using Intel SSDs Commoditizing High Availability and Storage using Flexible Storage Sharing Growing my Commoditized Storage and HA Environment with an Extra Node Building Application and Data Availability without SAN Veritas Operations Manager 6.1: Managing Flexible Storage Sharing Configure Flexible Storage Sharing using Veritas Operations Manager 6.1 Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability documentation for other releases and platforms can be found on the SORT website.Symantec Data Insight 4.5 Documentation Available
Symantec Data Insight 4.5 product guides (PDF and HTML pages) are now available on the SORT documentation page. The Symantec Data Insight 4.5 documentation set includes the following manuals: Symantec Data Insight Release Notes Symantec Data Insight Self-Service Portal Quick Reference Guide Symantec Data Insight Installation Guide Symantec Data Insight User's Guide Symantec Data Insight Administrator's Guide Third-Party Legal NoticesSymantec Disaster Recovery Orchestrator 6.1.1 Documentation Available
Documentation for Symantec Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (SDRO) 6.1.1 for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now available at the following locations: Product guides (PDFs and HTML pages): SORT documentation page Software compatibility list: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH228292 Late breaking news: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH209084 The SDRO 6.1.1 for AWS documentation set includes the following manuals: SDRO Release Notes SDRO Getting Started Guide SDRO Configuration Guide for SQL Server 2008 R2 SDRO Configuration Guide for SQL Server 2012 SDRO Administration Guide SDRO Deployment Guide Third-Party Software License AgreementsSymantec Data Insight 4.5: Configuring clustered NetApp monitoring
Symantec Data Insight (SDI) 4.5 lets you monitor NetApp Cluster-Mode devices running Data ONTAP 8.2. Data Insight uses the FPolicy framework to receive event notifications. These notifications are sent over a TCP connection to Data Insight's FPolicy server. For more information, see About configuring a clustered NetApp file server. To configure Data Insight to monitor clustered NetApp filers, do the following: Complete the necessary pre-requisites. Ensure that you have the minimum credentials required for accessing and configuring the clustered NetApp filers. Configure the DataInsightFPolicyCmod service on the Collector node configured to monitor the filer. Prepare the ONTAP cluster for FPolicy. Create a non-administrator account on the NetApp Cluster management host to enable discovery of shares by Data Insight. Add the clustered NetApp file server to the Data Insight configuration. Data Insight 4.5 documentation is available on the SORT website.Data Insight 4.5.1: Configuring Hitachi NAS monitoring
Data Insight 4.5.1 lets you monitor Hitachi NAS devices running Hitachi System Management Unit (SMU) versions 12.x or later. Complete the following tasks to enable Data Insight to monitor a Hitachi NAS file server: Obtain the necessary user credentials for accessing the Hitachi Enterprise Virtual Server (EVS) host. On the Hiachi NAS EVS host, create a domain user with necessary privileges. On the Hitachi NAS file server, configure the audit settings. Add the Hitachi NAS EVS to Data Insight. For more information about configuring Hitachi NAS monitoring, see About configuring Hitachi NAS. Data Insight documentation for other releases can be found on the SORT website.Symantec Data Insight 4.5.1: Documentation Available
Symantec Data Insight 4.5.1 product guides (PDF and HTML pages) are now available on the SORT documentation page. The Symantec Data Insight 4.5.1 documentation set includes the following manuals: Symantec Data Insight Release Notes Symantec Data Insight Self-Service Portal Quick Reference Guide Symantec Data Insight Installation Guide Symantec Data Insight User's Guide Symantec Data Insight Administrator's Guide Third-Party Legal Notices