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- veritas storage foundation 5.0 Dynamic Multipathing
- This paper describes the Veritas Storage Foundation Dynamic Multipathing DMP feature that first appeared in DMP release 5.0. It was subsequently backported to the Solaris 4.1 code base in SxRT 4.1 MP2, the AIX 4.0 code base in AxRT 4.0 MP4 and the Linux 4.1 code base in LxRT 4.1...
- Tags: Code Base, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2008-02-21
- veritas storage foundation: Simplifying Heterogeneous Data Migrations and Data Mobility
- All server and storage hardware has a useful life. And, unfortunately performing data migrations and array migrations are a question of when not if. Additionally with heterogeneous data centers and new technologies being introduced, infrastructure flexibility is paramount to business agility. The attendee of this webcast will learn how the...
- Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Mobility, Server, Data Migration, Migration, Storage, Hardware
- Webcasts 2008-01-08
- veritas storage foundation Prep Utility
- The Veritas Storage Foundation Prep Utility is a new tool for Storage Foundation users that simplifies and automates the installation and upgrade process to Storage Foundation 5.0. Simply stated, it is a must-use utility for anyone preparing for an SF-related installation or upgrade. The Veritas Storage Foundation Prep Utility significantly...
- Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Veritas Storage Foundation Prep Utility, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-24
- veritas storage foundation for Oracle RAC With EMC SRDF: A Disaster Recovery Solution
- This whitepaper describes Symantec's Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC clustering and replication technologies. It examines EMC's SRDF data replication to disaster recovery sites and provides technical details on setting up a Disaster Recovery solution for Oracle Real Application Clusters RAC. This technical discussion only considers synchronous mode SRDF with...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Oracle Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, EMC SRDF, EMC Corp., Oracle Real Application Cluster, Disaster Recovery, Blade Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Servers, Hardware, Software
- White papers 2007-09-11
- Getting Disaster Recovery Right and Dramatically Cutting Storage Costs With veritas storage foundation and Symantec Enterprise Vault
- Created by the merger of two major pharmaceutical firms, Astellas Pharma is committed to keeping operations up and running and medications available even if its data center goes down. To accomplish this goal the company built a disaster recovery site using host-based replication with Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Volume...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Data Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-09-10
- veritas storage foundation and Sun Solaris ZFS: A Performance Study Based on Commercial Workloads
- This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numbers. Pure performance numbers are interesting, but what is often ignored is how much CPU time,...
- Tags: Performance, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Performance Number, Performance Management, Storage, Sun Solaris, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2007-08-02
- veritas storage foundation in a VMware Environment: Linux and Solaris x64 Platforms
- VMware server virtualization is a technology that has significant benefits for a data center environment and it is changing the architecture of data centers. However, while it is great at virtualizing operating system instances, it does not solve or address storage virtualization. VMware has simplistic storage functionality that successfully addresses...
- Tags: Linux, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Environment, VMware Inc., Sun Solaris, VMware Server Virtualization, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-01
- veritas storage foundation and High Availability Solutions 4.3
- Veritas Storage Foundation provides a complete solution for heterogeneous online storage management. Based on the industry-leading Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System, it provides a standard set of integrated tools to centrally manage explosive data growth, maximize storage hardware investments, provide data protection and adapt to changing business requirements....
- Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, High Availability, Storage, Utility Computing, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-01
- SAP With veritas storage foundation HA on IBM System x and IBM Bladecenter
- More and more enterprises are running mission-critical applications like SAP that are fundamental to their core business. A failure of this kind of applications could be potentially disastrous to the business. As Windows server operating systems become increasingly accepted in the large scale and high-end mission-critical parts of organizations, meeting...
- Tags: IBM eServer BladeCenter, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, SAP AG, IBM Corp., Microsoft Windows, Blade Servers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software
- White papers 2007-02-02
- Oracle 10g RAC Deployment on AIX Using veritas storage foundation for Oracle RAC
- VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Real Application Clusters SFRAC provides an integrated solution stack for using clustered filesystems with Oracle RAC on AIX, as an alternative to using raw logical volumes, Automatic Storage Management ASM or the AIX General Parallel Filesystem GPFS. This paper covers the SFRAC requirements and provides...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, IBM AIX, Oracle Application Server 10g, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Blade Servers, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-12-12
- veritas storage foundation HA for Windows by Symantec: Maintaining Optimum Availability in Microsoft Exchange Environments
- Email plays an increasingly important role in most organizations. As an IT administration responsibility, maintaining user access to email has attained business-wide importance and visibility. Maintaining Exchange availability requires the close cooperation of the Microsoft Exchange administrator with the IT staff responsible for other application infrastructure components. The range of...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Environment, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, Security, Online Communications
- White papers 2006-09-01
- veritas storage foundation for Windows: The Dynamic Disk Advantage - Comparing Dynamic Disks to Basic Disks
- When Microsoft introduced the Windows 2000 operating system, they introduced a new way of managing disks and the capacity they contained. Developed in conjunction with VERITAS Software, Disk Management in Windows 2000 uses the concept of dynamic disks to allow users to dynamically configure their storage i.e. no reboots. The...
- Tags: Disk, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2006-04-27
- veritas storage foundation for Oracle 9i RAC and DB2 UDB V8 on IBM eServer pSeries
- This paper describes the installation and testing of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 9i RAC and IBM DB2 Universal Database V8 on AIX 5L, running on IBM eServer pSeries. It describes a high availability solution implemented for demonstration purposes at the IBM Benchmark Center in Montpellier, France. The paper describes...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, IBM eServer, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Oracle9i, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Utility Computing, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-04-11
- Using Dynamic Storage Tiering: How the veritas storage foundation Helps You Get the Most From Multi-Tier Online Storage
- This paper, using Dynamic Storage Tiering, examines the question of how enterprises can effectively exploit available technology and configuration options to substantially reduce the cost of online storage for the Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX systems in their data centers without incurring offsetting administrative cost. The paper addresses the needs...
- Tags: Data Center, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) Version 8 and veritas storage foundation for DB2
- In today's global economy there are various business drivers to maintain a second copy of a database at a second, remote location. The need to access data at any time is critical, and thus planned and unplanned outages must be minimized. Depending on the line of business, there may also...
- Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, IBM DB2 Universal Database, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-01-11
- Quick Recovery of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Databases Using veritas storage foundation 4.3 for Windows on HP Integrity Servers White Paper
- This white paper describes how to rapidly recover Microsoft SQL Server 2005 environments. The solution is based on the Quick Recovery feature of VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows 4.3 coupled with supporting technology from Microsoft and HP. The paper documents the installation, configuration, and testing of the solution. Throughout, a...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Solution, Hewlett-Packard Co., Recovery, VERITAS Software Corp., Microsoft SQL Server, VERITAS Storage Foundation, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-01-01
- veritas storage foundation for Windows: VERITAS Dynamic MultiPathing (DMP) for Windows Competitive Comparisons
- Dynamic multipathing software provides the intelligence necessary to manage multiple I/O paths between a server and a storage subsystem, Without multipathing software the server Operating System OS presents multiple images of a disk or LUN (one for each I/O path discovered), to applications, which can result in data corruption. At...
- Tags: Software, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, I/O, Microsoft Windows, Path
- White papers 2005-08-03
- Dynamic Multipathing: Improving Data Availability and I/O Performance Through Intelligent Management of Storage Device Access Paths
- Effective use of multiple I/O paths requires both awareness of storage network topology and an ability to execute pre-defined policies automatically in response to rapidly changing conditions in the I/O subsystem. The VERITAS Storage Foundation's Dynamic MultiPathing DMP feature automates the management of multiple I/O paths between servers and storage...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, Storage Device, I/O, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-04-22
- Enabling Disaster Recovery for DB2 UDB Using veritas storage foundation's Volume Replicator
- This paper describes the implementation and design of a replication solution for the IBM DB2 Universal Database Version 8.1.5 (FixPak 5) product (DB2 UDB), running on the Solaris 9 platform. The replication solution uses VERITAS Storage Foundation for DB2 and VERITAS Volume Replicator, an option for Storage Foundation for DB2....
- Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., VERITAS Storage Foundation, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Disaster Recovery, IBM DB2, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2005-04-04
- Faster, Safer Oracle Data Migration: Using veritas storage foundation Portable Data Containers to Move Oracle Data Between Unlike Platforms Faster, More Safely, and With Less Disruption
- Whether for permanent change to a new environment, or for the operational convenience of "Off-host" processing, the ability to move data between computing platforms of different types increases the flexibility of enterprise information technology operations significantly. But the complexity of moving data between unlike platforms has been a barrier to...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Platform, VERITAS Storage Foundation, Migration, VERITAS Cross-platform Data Sharing Technology, Cross-platform Data Sharing Technology, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-02-11
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