29 Sep 2011 |
Things just aren't as simple as they used to be. There was a time when we could achieve nearly all of our uptime goals just by clustering our backend database servers and maybe a handful of other application servers. There was very little of that weird virtualization voodoo going on, and all our important
applications ran on physical servers.
18 Apr 2012 |
I've been blogging over the past couple of weeks under the theme "Everything you think you know about clustering is wrong". It's sort of a tongue-in-cheek theme, but the misconceptions I was trying to dispel are real and held by enough people that I felt they were worth addressing. But now I want to shift gears a little bit.
27 Apr 2009 |
A very useful - yet often overlooked - feature of Veritas Cluster Server is Limits and Prerequisites. This feature is often used in conjunction with Service Group Workload Management (SGWM), but can also be implemented on its own. In this post, I'll describe what this feature does and how you can put it to use.
05 Mar 2009 |
Hello from the Storage Foundation/High Availability Technical Product Management team, and welcome to the new Symantec Connect! In this first VCS blog entry under the new format, we'll take a look at reducing the cost of HA by building larger, more "intelligent" clusters.
27 Jun 2008 |
Author’s Note: It’s come to our attention that while this is primarily a technical blog geared towards current users of Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), there are some readers of this blog with little background in clustering for availability. So with that in mind, we begin a series of posts which we hope will provide some foundation knowledge for those aspiring to HA G
