Cluster Server One
JoeH
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November 20th, 2009
Hello everyone,
We had a great meeting on Nov 18th with Mark Salmon presenting a technical review of Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) and the associated VCS testing tool called FireDrill. These are two really great products from Symantec that are definitely leaders in their space.
I have attached the two (2) presentations to this message for you to download and review.
Thank you again to Symantec for the excellent food and door prizes and we hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season with Thanksgiving and Christmas just around the corner. We will plan to meet again sometime around February next year to get everything off to a great start.
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Sincerely,
Joe Hayes
Group Director
Atlanta Storage & High...
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dshupp
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November 10th, 2009
Veritas Cluster Server One 5.0 is released on November 2nd 2009
Product Overview
Product Description:
Veritas Cluster Server One is the next generation of high availability solution to solve the emerging availability problems in virtualized, consolidated modern data centers. Veritas Cluster Server One provides rich awareness and control of both the applications as well as virtual machines. Veritas Cluster Server One maximizes application availability while minimizing capital and operational expenditure in virtual and scale-out environments. At the core is a flexible, scalable architecture which provides key capabilities such as local and remote failover, multi-tier application control, active/active data centers, prioritized availability, role-based access control, automation and standardization across physical and virtual environments.
New Features, Functionality, and Highlights:
Terminology
The terminology for VCS One has changed. The...
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Kimberley
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November 1st, 2009
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Mike Reynolds PMM
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October 15th, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 @ 9:00 AM PT
Presented by: Mike Reynolds, Senior Product Marketing Manager, High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Companies are utilizing server virtualization to reduce hardware costs and increase agility, however deploying mission-critical applications in virtual machines brings new challenges.
* How do we detect and recover from an application failure?
* How can we automate recovery when an entire site goes down?
* What are the best practices for reducing configuration errors and conducting non-disruptive disaster recovery testing?
Attend this webcast to get a deeper understanding of the challenges to true high availability and some answers on how to achieve it.
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Basics, Storage Management, Best Practice, Clustering and Replication, Features, Cluster Server, Cluster Server One, CommandCentral, SFHA Management (SFM, VIAS, VOS)
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Kyle Gleed
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October 7th, 2009
Applicable Releases: VCS One 2.0 & 2.0RU1
10/5/2009
VCS One Backup and Recovery
After implementing VCS One it’s important to have a good data protection plan to protect your Policy Master. The following discusses best practices for backing up the VCS One Policy Master.
What to Backup
There are two parts to a successful VCS One backup strategy: backing up the PM database and backing up the VCS One security brokers.
Backing up the PM Database
There are three methods for backing up the PM database:
1. Database backup
2. XML export
3. Command file dump
Database backups
A database backup makes a copy of the PM database by quiescing I/O and copying the database file, transaction log, and the odbc.ini file.
Advantages:
• Quick and allows for fast recovery.
Disadvantage
• Database backups cannot be edited offline.
• ...
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Kimberley
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October 6th, 2009
Oracle OpenWorld 2009
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, October 11-15
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mobilegleed
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September 23rd, 2009
A few weeks back a large number of Product Managers, Technical Product Managers, and Sales Engineers (SEs) gathered for our annual SE Symposium in Las Vegas. VCS One was definitely on everyone's mind, especially with the upcoming 5.0 release. Here's a summary of the Q & A from the VCS One sessions I attended.
Question: How many Policy Masters (PMs) are needed for a VCS One Cluster?
Answer: One PM per cluster. Larger environments will implement multiple VCS One Clusters per data center.
Question: Does the PM have to run in an active/passive cluster?
Answer: Do to the critical role of the PM dedicating hardware is best to ensure performance, reliability, and availability.
Question: Can we run other apps on the PM cluster?
Answer: Not supported in production. Running other apps on the PM could introduce errors/problems that adversely impact PM....
Basics, Best Practice, Clustering and Replication, Configuring, Features, Cluster Server One, Tip/How to
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Jeff Vandervoort
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September 13th, 2009
Prelude
Initially, I wrote this about Backup Exec, because that's where I ran into this problem. I'm also a SAV & SEP veteran but don't recall seeing this heinous language in their KB articles. So maybe it's a Veritas thing. But, whatever...
...then it occurred to me that while BE may (or may not) be the only Symantec enterprise product to which the symptom applies, the cure is universal. Because it bridges a huge gap between the goals of Symantec Sales, Support, Connect, Knowledge Base, and Product Managers. So I've taken the unusual-and-hopefully-not-presumptuous step of tagging it to all available products. It is global.
That kinda makes it Ideas spam, I know. Never done it before; probably never will again. Hope you can forgive me!
Don Quixote Battles Symantec
Two KB articles I've browsed recently contain variations on this boilerplate (emphasis mine):
"There are currently no plans to address this issue by way of a patch or hotfix in the...
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Kimberley
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July 29th, 2009
Visit with Symantec at the Gartner ITxpo, where we'll be showcasing storage and high availability solutions.
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Kimberley
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July 29th, 2009
Come visit us on the exhibit floor at SAP TechEd this October.
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TomSchroeder
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June 26th, 2009
Storage Networking World, Oct 27-28, Congress Frankfurt, Germany
Visit us at SNW Europe that will be held in conjunction with Virtualization World and DataCenter Technologies and learn how to better utilize your existing storage assets to take control of ever-increasing storage and how to optimize your data center.
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TomSchroeder
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June 26th, 2009
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Kimberley
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June 25th, 2009
October 12 - 15, 2009
Visit with Symantec at Storage Networking World Fall 2009, where we'll be showcasing storage and high availability solutions.
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Kimberley
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June 25th, 2009
August 31-September 3,
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
Symantec is a platinum level sponsor at VMworld 2009. Visit our booth #2110 where we’ll be showcasing Symantec’s industry leading virtualization solutions that support VMware and all major server virtualization platforms. There, you will find 8 interactive demo stations highlighting the Symantec products that compliment VMware environments. This is an excellent forum to speak with subject matter experts and see demos of our products so make sure to drop by the Symantec booth. Discover more about this year’s fun give-a-ways and discounted registration at http://go.symantec.com/vmworld/.
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sundstrom
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June 9th, 2009
In this screencast, Steve Sundstrom, Symantec Technical Director, provides a step-by-step walkthrough describing how to install Storage Foundation and High Availability solutions 5.0 MP3 using Solaris JumpStart. The Solaris JumpStart feature is a customizable automated installation on Solaris environments that allows system administrators to categorize machines on their network and automatically install systems based on the category to which a system belongs. In this screencast you'll learn how to use the installer with Solaris JumpStart, including some simple examples.
The screencast references the Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0MP3 Installer Support for JumpStart guide.
Content created by Chang Jung and Steve Sundstrom.
Storage Management, Clustering and Replication, Features, Installing, Solaris, Cluster Server, Cluster Server One, Tip/How to, Storage Foundation
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Eileen
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June 1st, 2009
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Eileen
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May 26th, 2009
In this video, Jim Senicka, Senior Director of Technical Product Management, discusses the challenges high availability clustering faces with server virtualization, scale out architectures, and increasing disaster recovery requirements. He also introduces the high availability architectures of the very near future that will help organizations increase their service levels and reduce their IT budgets.
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sara-collins
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May 25th, 2009
I am new to cluster server, how many sql server machines can you have in a cluster? i have a client that has a master server and a standby, now he wants a third standby my question should we make it a cluster, or is log shipping the best option?
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sara-collins
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May 25th, 2009
How many ip addresses would be required by a MS 2000 cluster in active/passice mode running a exchange on one node and a single file source on the other node
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sara-collins
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May 25th, 2009
I'd like to know few things about 'clustering':
1. What is clustering on NT?
2. What do I gain from clustering and what do I lose when using it.
3. What is the overhead of the process.
4. Does clustering help in load balancing of several NT machines?
5. Does clustering help in load balancing of several DBs?
Answers and/or references will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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.peter
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May 22nd, 2009
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Shlomo Nisgav
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May 20th, 2009
Hi
I am looking for the latest version and installation document of Veritas Server One simulator
Do anyone know where I can get it on PartnerNet?
I install Version 2 and was blocked by security firewall when I start it
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Kimberley
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May 7th, 2009
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cdavitian
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April 20th, 2009
The attached White Paper describes how DR testing currently works and how new tools like Disaster Recovery Advisor can improve the process.
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