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bruceparker | 12 Feb 2012 | 0 comments

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/02/09/the-end-of-erp/

Confidently Move Tier One Applications to the Private Cloud

John Lanka | 27 Jan 2012 | 0 comments

As more DoD business-critical applications move to the cloud, the need for high availability becomes increasingly important—regardless of geography. Ensure your private cloud remains resilient and available.

Architecting Resilient Private Clouds

Learn how to transform your existing data center into your private cloud while ensuring it is resilient and available.

Architecting Resilient Private Clouds: A New Approach to Transform Your Existing Data Center into Your Private Cloud

Time to Buy Some Solids...

bpascua | 20 Jan 2012 | 0 comments

Solid State drives have been gaining the markets interest for the past few years. Walking Around the Storage Expo this year in Earls Court it did occur to me that this was a technology Much Thin Provisioning that was here to stay. Increasingly the variety of implementations available from true SSD arrays to Memory Accelerators is more and more mainstream.

From the customers I speak with people are also less hung up on the technical details And are focusing more on the impact to the applications themselves. This can only mean One thing – that the IT industry is finally accepting SSD’s in all their glory are the future of storage. SSD’s not only open the door to massive IO performance but also highlight technologies like Storage Tiering Which SSD is really an enabler for not to mention VDI which seems a sweet spot for the technology. What is clear is Solid State technologies are here to stay, what implementation becomes the market leader... Only...

Shrinking IT Budget?

bpascua | 11 Jan 2012 | 0 comments

Increasingly we hear more and more that IT departments are being expected to do more with less. This translates to more projects and initiatives that require the same levels of service that the business has come to expect with budget looking very much the same as in the previous years. This divergence is causing customers to look at new ways of making their data centers more efficient. Generally speaking IT managers don’t want to “save” money, they are after all looking to grow their business and their infrastructure and delivery capabilities. However our customers are looking at initiatives to drive their efficiency up while maintain high levels to their business.

Symantec (formerly VERITAS) is a key vendor to 99% of the fortune 500 their data centre portfolio. The broad base of solutions has meant that Symantec really can offer customers a vendor independent view of the data centre without any reliance on any particular flavour of hardware. A major new...

SFHA 6.0 What's New Document

AHerr | 23 Nov 2011 | 0 comments

The introduction of a new release of SFHA is always met with the question of what has changed in this release?

The goal of this document is to explain what has changed in the different areas of the product.

It conveniently groups the changes in the areas where they are implemented.

We have also broken out our major features introduced within this release into a section in the beginning of the document in case you are just interested in learning more about the Storage Foundation File Compression and Data Deduplication, VCS Virtual Business Services or Symantec ApplicationHA.

This document does not have information on feature implementation but does point out which document to consult for more information.

Additional product documentation is available at https://sort.symantec.com/documents

Resetting your VCS admin Password with root

Tmy_70 | 04 Nov 2011 | 0 comments

If you've manged to get locked out of your Veritas Cluster Server Cluster Manager, but you have root access to the server, you can reset your password using the following procedure.

#su - root

#hauser -list

admin

#hauser -update admin

If you receive the following error when running this command:

VCS WARNING V-16-1-11309 Configuration must be ReadWrite then, you need to put the configuration into ReadWrite mode.

#haconf -makerw

You should now be able to set password.

Latest SFHA & VOM patch releases

TonyGriffiths | 14 Oct 2011 | 0 comments

https://sort.symantec.com/patch/latest

	Product	Release type	Patch name	Release date
1	Veritas Operations Manager	Hot Fix	vom-HF040015980-03	2011-10-12
2	Veritas Operations Manager	Hot Fix	...

Wall Street Journal covers 6.0 release

Theresa LaVeck | 11 Oct 2011 | 0 comments

The Storage and Availability Management 6.0 release was recently covered in the Wall Street Journal. The article focuses on 6.0 highlights, including preparing for the private cloud, Virtual Business Service, file system deduplication and compression, and tighter integration. Read the article.

New SFHA Rolling Patch Release – 5.1SP1RP2 for Solaris, AIX and Linux

TonyGriffiths | 04 Oct 2011 | 0 comments

New SFHA Rolling Patch release – 5.1SP1RP2 for Solaris, AIX and Linux

Available on https://sort.symantec.com/patch/matrix

1	Veritas Storage Foundation HA	Rolling Patch	sfha-sol_x64-5.1SP1PR3RP2	2011-09-28
2	Veritas Storage Foundation HA	Rolling Patch...

New Product Release Update: Veritas Operations Manager Advanced 4.0 for Windows

Big_Bear | 09 Sep 2011 | 0 comments

New Product Released: Veritas Operations Manager Advance 4.0 for Windows

Go to the SORT website for the product release notes and more information about the release.

https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/vomadv/4.0/windows/productguides/pdf/vomadvanced_notes.pdf

Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)

SORT Portal: https://sort.symantec.com

SORT Patches: https://sort.symantec.com/patch/matrix

SORT Portal contains:

- Risk Assessments
- SORT Search (Error Code Lookup, Patches, Documentation, Systems, Reports)
- Detailed Reports (Product and License Usage)
- Notification Signup (SORT Notification...

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