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VERITAS Volume Manager for Windows Software vs. Hardware RAID Performance

This paper summarizes the performance study comparing VERITAS Volume Manager for Windows 2000 to hardware RAID 0 and RAID 5, based on: Light to moderately stressed systems, software RAID 5 performance is comparable to the high-end hardware RAID card and is significantly better than the midrange hardware RAID card. Software...

Tags: Software, VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Software Corp., Microsoft Windows, Software RAID 0 Performance, RAID, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2002-03-01

Veritas Volume Manager Commercial (Windows)

VERITAS Volume Manager for Windows NT and Windows 2000 is an enterprise-level, online storage management tool that provides flexible storage configuration and powerful, reliable performance. Volume Manager removes the physical limitations of disk storage, so you can configure, share, and manage storage without interrupting data availability. Volume Manager reduces cost...

Tags: VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Software Corp., Microsoft Windows, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2001-05-21

VERITAS Volume Manager for Windows: Best Practices I

System Administrators faced with managing online storage have many choices to make about how the storage should be configured for optimal performance, availability and flexibility. By using an online management tool such as VERITAS Volume Manager for Windows, they can equip themselves with an arsenal of features to create and...

Tags: VERITAS Volume Manager, Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Best Practice, Storage, Microsoft Windows, Storage Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

White papers 2001-05-01

Additional Resources

Opnet - finger pointing raised to high art

Opnet - finger pointing raised to high artDon't believe it will workOne of the biggest drawbacks to virtualizing everything is that you virtualize your problems! Multiple layers of virtualization along with complex architectures makes tracking down performance problems just about impossible. Here's one of my own examples: EMC disk arrays...

Tags: Storage management, Storage, OPNET

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?

Is an IBM purchase of Red Hat inevitable?Jboss would complement Websphere?Really? Is that like how MySQL is going to complement Oracle's flagship product? Doesn't make sense to me, these products are in direct competition with eachother.I think the biggest threat to RedHat's business model is CentOS. Smart...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Storage, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., X64, Linux, Sun T2, server

Discussion threads 2009-05-15

Introducing Veritas Virtual Infrastructure From Symantec: Block-Based Virtualization Built on Enterprise Storage Management for Your Enterprise Infrastructure

File-based virtualization solutions, like VMware ESX Server, are best suited to low-impact file, print and web services. For applications and databases, one needs a block-based virtualization system designed for high performance and seamless LUN management. Symantec's expertise in volume management has been focused on solving this problem, the result of...

Tags: Symantec Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Enterprise Storage, Enterprise Storage Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-11-01

Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computing

Whispers from a ghost: Windows 7 and cloud computingYou don't mention it until MS is involvedMS is a latecomer to the party. Yet you single out MS for this. Well, since you're so confident - why don't you put a bet on it? How much money will you put up...

Tags: Storage, Operating systems, Storage management, Microsoft Windows, cloud computing, I/O, Microsoft Windows 7, basket, ghost, IBM AIX, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

Integrating Oracle Automatic Storage Management With Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC

Storage Foundation Volume Manager Operations will co-exist with Oracle ASM without any performance penalties. Veritas Storage Foundation Dynamic Multi-Pathing provides seamless multi-path failover capabilities and is complementary to ASM for both high availability and performance. Customers who wish to use Oracle ASM and Veritas Storage Foundation together should be careful...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, VERITAS Software Corp., Storage Management, VERITAS Storage Foundation, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Veritas Storage Foundation Dynamic Multi-Pathing, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-01

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

Configuring Single Instance Applications in CFS/CVM Environments in Continentalclusters

From version A.06.00, Continentalclusters supports recovering single instance applications and multiinstance applications over Veritas Cluster Volume Manager CVM 4.1 and Veritas Cluster File System CFS 4.1 from Symantec HP Serviceguard Cluster File System products. CVM or CFS 4.1 provides a cluster shared infrastructure for application and database files. This whitepaper...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Instance Application, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2006-11-14

Ballmer: Symantec suit won't delay Vista

Ballmer: Symantec suit won't delay VistaInteresting spin.Yes, I forgot about the Backup software that is intregrated with Windows XP/2K/NT was also formerly Veritas/Symantec's. I didn't think about the volume manager being theirs as well, but since NT came with 0 tools for managing the system, this would make sense.ha,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Biotechnology, Da Vinci Code, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Catholic, Bill Gates, Symantec Corp., Stacker, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2006-05-22

Symantec sues Microsoft on storage tech

Symantec sues Microsoft on storage techSubjective, no?I've seen a number of your other posts and you are often quite objective. So what happened here? Why not wait for the details and see if there's merit?Though I could be wrong, I doubt that Symantec bought Veritas and its...

Tags: SECURITY, storage, Symantec Corp., Microsoft Corp., shareholder

Discussion threads 2006-05-18

The top ten most influential (Unix) technical strategies today

The top ten most influential Unix technical strategies todayThin-client paradigm didn't make the top 10?Interesting . . . 1 million Chinese can't be wrong - or could they? ;)ZFS?Just why is ANOTHER journaling filesytem that much of a factor? Either you are as good as VERITAS, or you try to...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., strategy, Unix

Discussion threads 2006-05-11

Media response to ZFS

Two weeks ago I blogged about the media's unthinking response to an uninformed and ungrammatical Sun press release announcing the Niagara (or UltraSPARC T1) CPU. Sometime later that drew a response from a senior non Sun analyst I frequently exchange email with. Here's part of what he said: Perhaps...

Tags: ZFS, Sun Solaris, file system

Blog posts 2005-11-29

What's key to early days of Symantec-Veritas

What's key to early days of Symantec-VeritasJohn W Thompson again... the same idiot who......first trashed OS/2 when he was head of its marketing division. Knowing when to leave, he went to Symantec - and since then that company's products have been going down the toilet. I've seen enough...

Tags: Storage, SECURITY, VERITAS Software Corp., Symantec Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-02

VERITAS Portable Data Containers: Speeding Oracle Cross-Platform Data Migration

Although the Oracle TTS feature provides administrators with significant leverage when choosing where to run an Oracle instance, the capabilities of TTS are severely limited by the requirement to move data over the network. This time-consuming process requires significant application downtime, and the larger the database the longer the outage...

Tags: Oracle Corp., VERITAS Software Corp., Data Migration, Migration, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2004-07-22

VERITAS Volume Management Technology for Windows

Logical Disk Manager LDM is the result of collaboration between VERITAS and Microsoft. Logical Disk Manager is designed for Windows environments with moderate uptime requirements or limited system administration resources available for configuring and managing storage. VERITAS designed advanced volume management technology for Windows environments requiring the highest availability. In...

Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., Logical Disk Manager, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

White papers 2004-06-04

VERITAS Performance Brief - Remote Mirroring Using VxVM for Metropolitan Area Disaster Recovery

The OLTP performance measurements taken over various distances illustrate that using VERITAS Volume Manager's mirroring feature, the performance degradation caused by remote mirroring is very acceptable in both single instance and Oracle RAC environments. This paper describes the performance of remote mirroring using VERITAS Volume Manager VxVM as measured by...

Tags: Performance, VERITAS Software Corp., OLTP, Mirroring, Disaster Recovery, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2004-05-13

How VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows Integrates with and Enhances Windows Server 2003 Volume Shadow Copy Service

VERITAS ships snapshot support today via the VERITAS FlashSnap Option in Volume Manager for Windows 2000, and added VSS support in VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows VSFW. Before addressing how VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows integrates with and enhances it, it's necessary to understand the Volume Shadow Copy Service technology....

Tags: VERITAS Software Corp., Microsoft Windows Server, VERITAS Storage Foundation, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

White papers 2003-11-20

UNIX File System and VERITAS File System 3.5 on Solaris 9 Operating System

This benchmark study compares the performance of UNIX File System UFS, Sun's integrated and preferred file system for general-purpose Solaris software installations, and Solaris Volume Manager software against VERITAS Foundation Suite 3.5 software (VERITAS File System, VxFS 3.5 on VERITAS Volume Manager, VxVM 3.5). This benchmark study also indicates that...

Tags: Sun Solaris 9, VERITAS Software Corp., Operating System, File System, VERITAS File System, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Storage, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2003-04-08