Storage & Clustering Community Blog

New Product Release Update for CommandCentral Storage 5.2 Release Update 2 (RU2) for Windows and UNIX Platforms.

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

https://sort.symantec.com/public/documents/ccs/5.2ru2/windowsandunix/productguides/pdf/ccstor_notes_52RU2.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...

Usually we showcase customer and partner success stories in this area for you to find out how Symantec's storage and clustering products help our cutomers keep their data centers up and running. Today's stories even include one about Symantec's Green IT efforts within our own data centers.

Maine Medical Center

Maine Medical Center is expanding its services to include virtualizing servers and protecting data at remote sites throughout the state. This brought new challenges in disaster recovery and data protection. The IT team turned to Symantec. Results include:

• Shortening the recovery time objective (RTO) from several weeks to two hours.
• Reducing backup time by up to 10-fold.
• Lowering the storage footprint 90 percent.
• Avoiding $30,000 in additional hardware costs.

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NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

Symantec technologies—everything from information management, to storage management, to enterprise security, to systems management—are an important part of NASDAQ OMX’s IT portfolio. The world’s largest exchange is able to transact volumes of information quickly and securely and spearhead thought leadership initiatives around areas such as green IT and cloud computing with the help of these Symantec solutions. Read more.

Shanxi Mobile

Stressed by rapid growth, the business-critical remediation and billing infrastructure at Shanxi Mobile needed more capacity and increased resilience. The company turned to Symantec for a storage virtualization solution. Results include 6.17 million CNY (920,000 USD) in procurement savings, compared with to the trend of the company’s storage...

What’s New in CommandCentral Storage 5.2?

• Agentless discovery of hosts by running discovery scripts
  CommandCentral can now discover a remote host by running scripts that collect data from the host. This discovery feature does not require you to install any software on the host. The discovery provides end-to-end visibility from the file system to the spindle. Because an agent is not required, agent-less discovery eliminates agent deployment and maintenance and minimizes CPU and memory consumption.

• Discovery of Storage Foundation hosts through the Unified Agent
  The Unified Agent is a part of Veritas Storage Foundation. It consists of the VRTSsfmh package, which collects information about a host that includes a Storage Foundation product. Wherever Storage Foundation is installed, CommandCentral can use the agent to discover information about the host. This feature lets you leverage the existing agents that you...