Storage Foundation for Windows
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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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.
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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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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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Kimberley
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November 1st, 2009
1 - 4 December 2009 | Las Vegas, NV | Caesars Palace Las Vegas
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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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MSalimov
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October 28th, 2009
After overloading the server, there is incomplete recovery of dynamic disks in a cluster group (screenshot_sfw1, screenshot_sfw2).
Log shows error V-76-58645-10230 (screenshot_sfw3).
In the knowledge base is similar mistakes, but there are solutions that do not lead to a correction of the problem.
Each server overload, the number of disks in a position to stop different!! At the same time fully exlorer displays all drives and they can make a write operation, reading.
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Windows server 2008 x64, SFW 5.1
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beautwaves
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October 26th, 2009
The Admin guide has a list of Volume Status descriptions but some of the listed statuses are not what they appear in vxprint output.
I have managed to simulate some States/Status but not all.
For example, for the "Healthy" status, vxprint output will show "ACTIVE".
Similarly for the "Degraded" status, vxprint output will simply show "-".
In the below output sample, "Failed" status is accurately shown as "Failed".
Diskgroup = OTL2K801-Dg0
TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0 PUTIL0
v HarddiskVolume2 - -
8192 - -
- -
v...
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MSalimov
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October 26th, 2009
Data: HP DL360g5, Windows Server 2008 x64, Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1, Failover cluster, HP StorageWork MSA 2012fc, HP 4/16 San Switch.
When I configure dynamic groups in SFW 5.1 the server gives an error:
STOP: 0x00000007e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0fffffa6000d489bd, 0xfffffa600ad78738.......
msdsm.sys Adress fffffa60000d489bd base at fffffa6000d3d000
P.S.
Without HP 4/16 San Switch, everything works perfectly !!!!
Help, please.
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nicole_kim
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October 15th, 2009
“Best Practices for Storage Management and High Availability in your Microsoft Data Center” is now available online in the Things You Need to Know section of the Windows IT Pro website and is also in the September 2009 issue of Windows IT Pro.
Published by the Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows product team, 6 best practices for storage management and high availability are outlined for IT managers and system administrators to abide by. Enjoy!
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florinchirila
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October 15th, 2009
A customer is trying to capture a snapshot of a physical server in order to build a virtual image. He is using a VMWare client to perform a VSS snapshot. But when using it on a server with Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows installed, an error occurs. Same action ends up with no errors if no VSF is installed on the server. Note that the VSF version installed is Basic, thus without the Flashsnap feature. Is Veritas Flashsnap needed to do a snapshot on the servers with VSF or is there a workaround to make VSS work even without the Flashsnap option installed ?
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jcc321
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October 12th, 2009
Hello, we are using Storage foundation 3.2.539 on a server 2000 Operating System, which mainly controlled a SAN via Fiber Channel; the SAN consisted of 2 JBOD's with an Embedded RaidWatch Software called RaidWatch.
The server 2000 server in which storage foundation was installed and configured on crashed, we are in the process to attempt to recover but we are in need of access to the SAN. We installed new drives to install a fresh operating system.
We had the SAN configured with disk groups and within the disk groups we had disks to partitions, the question I have is that since Storage foundation was the software used to configure the SAN storage to a disk/partition level.
If we install the same storage foundation software and attempt to hook the SAN back up, will we loose the SAN? if not what are the steps to take.I ask this because I'm not sure where the actual data is held on which the SAN was configured on the server side or JBOD side. The Raidwatch is...
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Dterry
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October 11th, 2009
Storage Foundation for Windows 5.1 on a Windows 2003 Cluster - I am attempting to update the Storage Foundation license keys to the purchased keys (currently on DEMO) and am encountering the following error:
"Provided license conflicts with the existing key(s)."
This is when I hit "update" to enter the new key and I cannot remove the existing key because it says it cannot remove the base key.
Tried it with the cluster offline and had the same results.
Am I missing something simple here?
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max_pely
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October 10th, 2009
Hi... All
Neewbie question.
Im trying to expand a partition with storage foundation (se attached screen dumb) but it states that there is not enough free space.
Looking at the picture the partition i'm trying to expand is F: and as you can se i have 30 gb free to use but i'm unable to use that space.
For some reason E: is able to use it...
Can anyone explain to me what I'm doing wrong here.
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LeslieMiller
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October 9th, 2009
Congratulations to the winners of the recent Stop Buying Storage Contest.
Winner winner, chicken dinner (and 7,000 connect points!):
Life Has Become Easy with Command Central (danny77)
3 Runners UP (in order):
How We Positioned EV for/customer looking to buy additional storage (Ratnaprabha)
Symantec Exceptional Vault!! (colley)
Every Bit of Your Storage is Counted (Deepakf)
Honorable Mentions:
Storage Foundation – Can Anyone Beat It? (clewis)
No Going Without Veritas Volume Manager (Srini_Ris)
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AndyN
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October 8th, 2009
We are very pleased to announce the official launch of the Richmond Storage & High Availability User Group! Our first meeting will be on Thursday, October 29 from 12:00 pm to 3:30 pm at Dave & Buster's.
Our special guest speaker will be Dave Little, Symantec Distinguished Engineer and well known NetBackup expert. Dave will give a presentation on NetBackup performance tuning.
In addition, we will have the pleasure of hearing from David Kies from Virginia Information Technology Agency who will discuss his experiences using Symantec products such as NetBackup and Storage Foundation for Windows.
We will also organize our Advisory Board leadership for our new User Group. Come prepared with your questions, ideas, and experiences to share with the Group.
Lunch will be served!
Agenda:
12:00 pm - Announcements & Introductions
12:15 pm - Lunch
12:45 pm - NetBackup and Storage Foundation for Windows by David Kies (VITA)
01:30 pm - NetBackup Performance Tuning by Dave Little (...
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gothicreader
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October 8th, 2009
Hi,
My cluster consist of one exchange box and one failover box. My exchange box took a dive several days ago. Now, I only have the secondary node up and running.
My question to you is:
To recover from this:
1. I went ahead and deployed a new system using the same "failed" exchange server hostname and ip address. Prior to joining the server to the domain, I went ahead and reset the server object account in AD.
2. When I try to install exchange on this server (after ensuring the other server is turned off, since I have to rename the new server to the EVS name and IP address) in disaster recovery mode, I keep getting a prompt to provide a password. The message that is appearing is:
"The microsoft exchange messaging and collaboration services component
requires a username, domain, and password for the existing exchange 5.5
installation service account'
3. We...
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stemoser
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October 7th, 2009
Hi,
I wanted to destroy a dynamic DG. I received the following error: "The specified disk is not empty, operation not allowed."
I would like to know how I can delete the subdisk on my Harddisk2 (see picture). So I will be able to delete my DG.
I didn't find anyting in the Veritas Storage Foundation Administrator Guide
Thanks,
Best regards,
Stephane
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Kimberley
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October 6th, 2009
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Visit the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 site to register and find out more information.
12.x, Industry Event, Storage Management, Backup and Archiving, Clustering and Replication, Cluster Server, Cluster Server One, CommandCentral, Enterprise Vault, NetBackup, NetBackup PureDisk, NetBackup RealTime Protection, SFHA Management (SFM, VIAS, VOS), Storage Foundation, Storage Foundation for Windows, Volume Replicator
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Sridhar_sri
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October 6th, 2009
Hi ,
I have made a setup using HA 5.0 solution between 2 real server. I have configure replication network for replicate the data`s and clustering for HA support. If in case, I have used virtual machines created by VMware ESX server and use this replication network and custering , will it work ?
Regards,
Sridhar.
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jai_malkani
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October 6th, 2009
In this video, Jai Malkani, Sr. Product Manager, discusses why Storage Foundation Manager is a must have for Data Center Environments running Storage Foundation and High Availability software to dramatically improve service levels while reducing cost and complexity.
Video Length: 6:00
Resources:
Download Storage Foundation Manager 2.1
Find out more in the Storage Foundation Manager blog post
View Screencasts:
Installing Storage Foundation Manager (6min 47sec)
Non-Interactive Installs for Managed Host Deployment (4min 07sec)
Configuring Storage Foundation Manager 2.0 to Work with LDAP and Active Directory (4min 20sec)
Managing Using Application Groups (7min 21sec)
Making Storage Foundation Manager Highly Available (13min 32sec)
Storage Foundation Manager DMP State Management Add-on (9min 38sec)
Storage Foundation Manager License Deployment Report (12min 14sec)
Basics, Storage Management, Clustering and Replication, Features, Installing, Cluster Server, SFHA Management (SFM, VIAS, VOS), Storage Foundation, Storage Foundation for Windows
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stemoser
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October 6th, 2009
Hi,
I would like to change / migrate / encapsulate a Volume belonging to Microsoft Disk Management, Disk Group with data on it, to a SFW Volume.
Windows 2008 was first installed and now we should migrate the storage and it isn't possible to make a mirror with the microsoft solution. So we installed SFW 5.1 to have more possibilities. Unfortunately after the installation of SFW 5.1 I can't do anyting more with this Volume.
Can I change the Volume belonling to a Microsoft Disk Management, Disk Group to a SFW Disk Group?
Thanks.
Best regards,
Stephane
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Taller_Cui
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September 30th, 2009
这段视频展示了如何使用Veritas安装评估服务和Veritas运营维护服务。 Veritas运营维护服务是一套基于Web的免费的管理工具集。 它们能够简化和流程化很多Storage Foundation和High Availability相关的部署和管理任务。视频由开发经理Blue Lang做原始演示，Taller Cui中文配音。
视频长度: 12:19
相关资源:
英文版视频地址： English Screencast Version
安装评估服务地址： VIAS
其他运营维护服务地址： Labs utilities
Storage Management, Clustering and Replication, Configuring, Installing, Upgrade, SFHA Management (SFM, VIAS, VOS), Storage Foundation, Storage Foundation for Windows, Volume Replicator
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rsghowellnj
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September 30th, 2009
Would someone be able to point me to a knowledge base article showing how to convert a contatinated dataset to a strip dataset using Symantec Storage Foundation Agent on a Windows Server please?
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IkerSilva
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September 29th, 2009
Hello!
I was asking on other places, but I`m gathering the different opinions. I`m working in the middle size business. We`re looking for shared storage I`m considering what iSCSI solution is better if compare of price and functionality - software or hardware? And what vendor is more reliable?
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