Storage Management
sunguru
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November 20th, 2009
Hi
I have SUN M5000 running Solaris 10 Generic_141414-01 ( Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC)
Foundation suite and cluster version :-
36 1346648 3a728 289 1 vxdmp (VxVM 5.0MP1-2007-01-22a: DMP Dr)
38 7c002000 33fd48 290 1 vxio (VxVM 5.0MP1-2007-01-22a I/O dri)
40 137cf10 d48 291 1 vxspec (VxVM 5.0MP1-2007-01-22a control)
211 7b37b2a0 c30 292 1 vxportal (VxFS 5.0_REV-5.0MP1u_sol portal)
212 7ae00000 1bc8a0 21 1 vxfs (VxFS 5.0_REV-5.0MP1u_sol SunOS )
215 7b620000 4fe28 296 1 vxfen (VRTS Fence 5.0MP1)
230 7afd4000 a2c8 293 1 fdd (VxQIO 5.0_REV-5.0MP1u_sol Quick)
Recently there was a disk failure in testdg disk group , SUN camein and i run the below command to remove the disk from Solaris before he replace the drive physically
cfgadm -c...
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Luke_Devon
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November 20th, 2009
Hi
I have a GFS storage in a SAN and there is another tow machines hadnling applications . Can i use Veritas Clustering sute to cluster my applications ? Veritas doesn't support for GFS ?
Many Thanks
Luke
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Gerald Gallagher
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November 16th, 2009
I moved an application from a server running Solaris 8 to Solaris 10. To accomplish this, I added SAN disks to the application's disk group, which previously only had local disks. The disks on the SAN were visible to both old and new servers. Deported the disks on the old server, and imported on the new. I had to do a '-f' import, but no problem, worked fine. I had failed disks and plexes on the new server, so I removed them.
Not sure if this is relevant or not, but after cleaning up the failed disks and plexes on the new server, I re-imported on the old server to look at something. I did not start any volumes or mount anything, but for a time the disk group was imported on both old and new servers.
Now it looks like I may need to move back to the old server. The SAN admins have taken away access to the SAN disks, but no problem, I have all the local disks, right? Problem is, I get "import failed: Disk group...
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chakri_avala
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November 16th, 2009
In this screencast by PM Chakri Avala, learn about SmartMove and Thin Reclamation technologies offered in Veritas Storage Foundation. Next, watch Chakri go through a demo of SmartMove where he migrates data from a thick to a thin environment. Following the SmartMove demo, Chakri demonstrates how Thin Reclamation reclaims allocated but unused space, while the file system is online.
Video Length: 18:36
AIX, Storage Management, HP-UX, Linux, Features, Solaris, Windows, Storage Foundation, Storage Foundation for Windows
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AndyN
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November 13th, 2009
Join us for our next Indiana Storage & High Availability User Group meeting on Tuesday, December 8 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at Alverno Information Services.
This meeting will include a presentation on Veritas Cluster Server by Ray English from Indiana Power & Light and a presentation on Storage Foundation by Rick Sherman from Symantec. Come prepared to discuss your questions, challenges, and experiences.
Lunch will be served!
Agenda:
11:00 am – Introductions & Announcements
11:15 am – VCS Presentation by Ray English (IPL)
12:00 pm – Lunch
12:30 pm – Storage Foundation Presentation by Rick Sherman (Symantec)
01:45 pm – Planning & Prizes
Where:
Alverno Information Services
1300 Albany Street
Beech Grove, IN 46107
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Kimberley
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November 11th, 2009
When: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11 am PST/2 pm EST
Speaker: Paul Belk, Senior Technical Product Manager
Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1 will be releasing Service Pack 1 (SP1) in November. This SP1 release includes an eye-popping list of extended features and additional functionality that enables this product to maintain its competitive edge in the storage management and availability space for the Windows environment.
Paul Belk, Senior Technical Product Manager, will provide an overview on what is entailed with the release. Some highlights include extended platform and operating system coverage, improved hardware array support and integration for Dynamic Multi-Pathing, thin provisioning discovery and reclamation with SmartMove, and quick recovery with FlashSnap for Sharepoint 2007 and Enterprise Vault 8.0. Tune in to learn more about what is included with the SP1 release for Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1.
Register/...
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jasti
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November 11th, 2009
Hello:
Has anyone ever tried this and succeeded or found a work-around?
Configuration:
- Solaris 10 x86 (HW 06/06 patched) implemented inside VMWare Server 1.0.1
- Veritas Storage Foundation 4 Basic (latest) inside the same Virtual machine.
- Provision several VMWare based "*.vmdk" disks for Volume Manager to use.
The problem is that Volume Manager complains that "Disk sector size is not
supported" when I try to initialize the VMWare based disks for use with
Volume Manager. See below:
VxVM vxdisk ERROR V-5-1-5433 Device c2t3d0s2: init failed:Disk sector size is not supported
bash-3.00# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
c0t0d0s2 auto:none - -...
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gmartino
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November 10th, 2009
I have SUN x4140 servere and I would like to know what would be a correct tier for Storage Foundation Suite. Server has two CPUs and 8 cores. Here is mpstat output:
# mpstat
CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl
0 31 0 2 323 98 98 0 7 5 0 113 0 4 0 96
1 15 0 2 56 8 69 0 3 4 0 55 0 0 0 100
2 10 0 13 42 14 38 0 2 4 0...
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Gaurav Sangamnerkar
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November 10th, 2009
Veritas SF product till 4.1 was by default taking & keeping 5 backup copies of diskgroups under /etc/vx/cbr/bk directory.
Starting 5.0, this was reduced to only one copy. In most of the cases, diskgroup configuration gets modified the same day & issue occurs on the same day. As a result we are not left with any last known good config copy.
It would be great if this is changed default to 5 copies as was in previous versions.
I agree that since 5.0 can support very large configurations, it is quite possible that config copies would be bigger in size consuming the disk space under /etc/ filesystem. A workaround can be provided to this by
a) either giving an option to user to move the files to some other directory.
b) create some reserved space with in diskgroup where these backups can be hold & some privilaged command which can access those backups.
Gaurav
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Rishi Manocha
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November 9th, 2009
Symantec is proud to announce the launch of Veritas Operations Services 2.0 (VOS 2.0). This release is a culmination of months of development based on customer feedback, and represents a significant step forward in the overall value that Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server customers can expect to receive from VOS.
This underpinning of the release is an integrated customer experience which encompasses VOS services that customers have used for over two years. Below are key highlights of the release:
Updated look and feel of the site, reports, notifications, and search capabilities including a customizable dashboard
Increased visibility of vital information through integrated searches for patches, documentation, and UMI codes
Improved efficiency of data collection and reporting through an integrated data collector
Better data center coverage with increased integration of Windows functionality
Increased management of all...
Storage Management, SFHA Management (SFM, VIAS, VOS), Storage Foundation, Storage Foundation for Windows, Volume Replicator
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Gaurav Sangamnerkar
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November 9th, 2009
In all versions of Storage Foundation suite, Symantec provides a feature of IOFencing to prevent Cluster Split Brain situation & prevent data corruption.
As per design, IOFencing is a passive module i.e it doesn't react live unless there is any GAB port membership change. In case cluster keeps running fine, there is no check which is done by IOFencing module.
It would be great if IOFencing module is made intelligent so that it performs frequent checks whether the coordinator disks have appropriate registration keys & the data disks have appropriate registration & reservation keys.
There are many occurances faced in real life scenario when disks have stale keys it is realized much later once issue occurs. Very common issue we face on our environment is diskgroup not getting imported with an error "diskgroup has no valid configuration copies", the result we find is disks are left with stale keys because of which vxvm is not able to access the private region...
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AndyN
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November 9th, 2009
We are very pleased to announce the official launch of the Denver Storage & High Availability User Group! Our first meeting will be on Friday, December 4 from 12:00 pm to 3:30 pm at Del Frisco's.
This meeting will include a presentation from a member of our User Group on their use of Symantec products. We will also have a presentation on performing backups for VMware specifically ESX Server 3.5 and vSphere using NetBackup.
Come prepared to discuss your experiences, ideas, and questions with the Group. Lunch will be served!
Agenda:
12:00 pm - Lunch
12:30 pm - Announcements & Introductions
12:45 pm - User Group Member Presentation
01:30 pm - Backing up VMware
03:00 pm - User Group Advisory Board Organization
03:15 pm - Prizes
Where:
Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House
8100 E Orchard Rd
Greenwood Village, CO 80111
303-796-0100
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AndyN
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November 9th, 2009
Join us for our next Raleigh Storage & High Availability User Group meeting on Thursday, December 3 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel from 2:30 pm until 5:30 pm.
This meeting will include presentations on Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System and Deduplication. Come prepared with your questions, ideas, and experiences to share with the Group!
Following our meeting, there will be a cocktail and dinner reception. See you there!
Agenda:
2:30 pm – Announcements & Introductions
2:45 pm – Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System by Daniel Lamorena (Symantec)
3:45 pm – Break
4:00 pm – Deduplication by Mayur Dewaikar (Symantec)
5:00 pm – Dinner and cocktail reception
Where:
Sheraton Imperial Hotel
4700 Emperor Blvd.
Durham, NC 27703
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sirobins
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November 9th, 2009
Community,
We have a single node Netbackup 6.5.2 Solaris 10 server that has ICS (VRTSicsco) installed as part of the standard (and mandatory) packages Netbackup 6.X requires. (This Netbackup server has connections with other NB Media servers that need ICS to be running to communicate amongst themselves)
We want to install Storage Foundations 5.0 MP3 on this same single node of Netbackup 6.5.2 to manage SAN attached storage.
Upon installing Storage Foundations, we encounter the following warnings.
It appears that the current version of VRTSicsco we already have installed on the Netbackup Server, is more recent then the one that comes with Storage Foundations.
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Checking installed packages on E0100DaIngSbx80.sbx.ca
CPI WARNING V-9-1-1267
SF version 5.0 includes VRTSicsco version 1.3.18.0. A more recent...
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Rishi Manocha
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November 6th, 2009
This screencast, presented by PM Andrea Fuchs, offers a great walkthrough of functionality available in Veritas Operations Services (VOS) 2.0. The underpinning of the Veritas Operations Services 2.0 release, launched on November 4th 2009, is an integrated user experience which ties together VOS services that have been available to SFHA customer for over 2 years. A number of other great new features are also available.
Use Veritas Operations Services in conjuction with Storage Foundation Manager to streamline many of your Storage Foundation and High Availability management tasks. Please send us an email with your feedback of Veritas Operations Services 2.0.
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pepanter
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November 5th, 2009
Hello all,
I have just set up a new Failover cluster and wanted to install SFW 'just' for mirroring SAN partitions (meaning: no Campus cluster or VCS). This should be possible, I think, but the solutions guide seems to miss this point...
Well, I am new to Veritas SFW. Can someone give me a hint?
Best regards,
Peter.
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Prithvi
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November 4th, 2009
Hi,
i'm planning to upgrade Sf4.0MP2 to SF5.0MP3 with addition of one more node to existing 2 node vcs cluster
can some one comment what should be fallback plan for this activity of upgrade.
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Kimberley
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November 1st, 2009
1 - 4 December 2009 | Las Vegas, NV | Caesars Palace Las Vegas
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Find out more
Industry Event, Storage Management, Cluster Server, Cluster Server One, CommandCentral, NetBackup, SFHA Management (SFM, VIAS, VOS), Storage Foundation, Storage Foundation for Windows, Volume Replicator
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beautwaves
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November 1st, 2009
The Volume Status table in the SFW 5.1 admin guide lists lots of status values as well. However, after finding the Degraded status showing up as "-" in the vxprint output, I wondered how the rest of the possible Status values will look like in real-life. I'm unable to simulate many anomaly scenarios with our limited test systems.
I was looking at Admin guides for Solaris/Aix, they both contain detailed lists of Volume, Plex, States (& descriptions) that are displayed in vxprint outputs associated descriptions. Is there similar info for Windows Volume & Plex?
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Rishi Manocha
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November 1st, 2009
Overview
Storage Foundation HA 5.1 introduces keyless feature enablement. The primary objective of keyless is to improve the customer experience with Storage Foundation HA (SFHA) and make it easier to deploy, manage and use our products. Note that a customer continues to be required to have valid licenses for the product he/she is running. Entitlement does not change in 5.1
Review the information provided below as well as the attached pdf to learn more.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is the advantage of using keyless versus standard licensing?
Keyless simplifies the task of a system admin deploying SFHA in a production environment. It also results in better overall system availability in a production environment by removing the need for temporary license keys.
Before 5.1, license keys were required for SFHA to be functional on a host. If at time of deployment, a system admin didn't have the appropriate key handy (which can happen for a variety of reasons), he...
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fawaz
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November 1st, 2009
Has anyone done liveupgrade with veritas from soalris9 to solaris10 .
Please guide me some documents/tips on it.
Thanks
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dhofmeister
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October 30th, 2009
i've got an hp-ux 11.23 itanium npar that's crashing repeatedly with the following (as reported by crashinfo). vea version is 3.2.532 (old i know). my questions are -- this is coming from vea, yes? and will going to 5.0 help? or is this actually a new/unknown problem? - d (oh -- the latest 4.1 vxfs patch is installed)
============== EVENT ============================
= Event #0 is CT_PANIC on CPU #4;
= p crash_event_t 0xe000000100007000
= p rpb_t 0xe000000100edca70
= Process at 0xe000000212fc4000, pid 3994, "vxsvc"
============== EVENT ============================
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fawaz
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October 30th, 2009
Has anyone done vcs 4.1 with db2 to vcs 5.0 with db2 on solaris . VCS have db2 running.
fyi - current version is solaris 9 and vcs 4.1with db2 planing to do solaris live upgrade to solaris 10 and later upgrade to VCS 5.0 with db2and vxvm 5.0
Steps for doing VCS 4.1 with db2 to VCS 5.0 with db2 will be useful to me .
Thanks
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