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hi, i am having a VCS cluster with GCO and VVR. on each node of the cluster i have a DG with an associated RVG, this RVG contains 11 data volume for Oracle database, these volumes are getting full so i am going to add new disks to the DG and creat...
SmartIO for Solaris was introduced in Storage Foundation HA 6.2. SmartIO enables data efficiency on your SSDs through I/O caching. Using SmartIO to improve efficiency, you can optimize the cost per Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS). SmartIO s...
The Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) Cluster Configuration Wizard and Symantec High Availability Configuration Wizard are introduced on all supported AIX, Linux and, Solaris distributions in this release. The two new wizards replace ...
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 ...
The SmartIO feature on Linux was introduced in Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) 6.1. Beginning in this release, SmartIO is also supported on AIX and Solaris. SmartIO enables data efficiency on your solid state drives (SSDs) through I/O...
SmartIO is a new feature introduced in Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions (SFW HA) 6.1 for Windows. SmartIO improves I/O performance of applications and Hyper-V virtual machines by using Solid State Devices (SSDs) as a cachin...
Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) is a new feature introduced in Symantec Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) 6.1. CVM is a new way to manage storage in a clustered environment. With CVM, failover capabilities are available at the volume level. Volumes ...
Symantec recommends that you verify your installation of Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) on a system before you install or upgrade VCS. This allows you to know about the product prerequisites, installed product version, and configuration. You can verif...
Hello, and good afternoon to you all. For one of our cluster deployments, we've been requested to create a Cluster Shared Filesystem including 9 physical servers and 3 VMware VMs (vSphere 5.0 or 5.5, if this matters), all running RHEL6.5. The VMs wo...
I have a customer who is upgrading a critical SFRAC cluster with global apps and has a question about the supportability of 6.1 Sol 10 with u8 base. Our documentation states that that 6.1 is compatible with Sol 10 update 9 onward. Does this mean a ...
Hello, If anybody have same experience and can help me, I am gonna be very thankful I am using solars 10 (x86 141445-09) + EMC PowerPath (5.5.P01_b002) + vxvm (5.0,REV=04.15.2007.12.15) on two node cluster. This is fileserver cluster. I've added...
The following Virtual Business Services (VBS) features are available in the 6.1 release: VBS can remain operational in spite of a tier failureAbility to run custom script on service groupsVBS status tracking This article provides a brief overview of ...
Hi Folks, Can you clarify my understandinging? I have added an extra disk into a server, however when I view it from mylittleexpensiveserver02 I get a different view see below DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS disk_0 ...
Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) service groups are virtual containers that manage groups of resources required to run a managed application. The FailOverPolicy service group attribute governs how VCS determines the target system for failover. For m...
Configuring a Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) secure cluster ensures that all TCP/IP communication between systems is encrypted. In secure mode, VCS does not store user names or passwords. You can configure secure clusters using the script-based install...
Virtual Business Services (VBS) is a feature that represents a multi-tier application as a single consolidated entity in Veritas Operations Manager (VOM). It builds on the high availability and disaster recovery features provided by Symantec products...
Communication among VCS components When you install VCS, user-space components and kernel-space components are installed on a system. The VCS engine, also known as the high availability daemon (HAD) exists in the user space. The HA daemon contains th...
You can use the hastatus command to display the changes to cluster objects such as resource, group, and system and to monitor transitions on a cluster. You can also verify the status of the cluster. The hastatus command functionality is also applicab...
The Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast (GAB) logging daemon collects the GAB-related logs during I/O fencing events or when the GAB message sequence fails. The daemon stores the data in a compact binary form. By default, the GAB logging daemon is ...
Group Membership and Atomic Broadcast (GAB) is a kernel component of Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) that provides globally-ordered messages that keep nodes synchronized. GAB maintains the cluster state information and the correct membership on the clu...
