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It's an exciting time in the industry
nick.kenny | 28 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

 

Windows 8 has been released... OK, so I'm not actually that excited about Windows 8 (I'm a Mac user and I like my screen sharp and finger print free).  But as usual it was accompanied by a new version of Microsoft's server OS - 2012 and that does excite me.
 
Yes 2012 has got a load of new functionality, but these 'cool new features' aren't the interesting bits, it's what's been in there for a while that's really exciting.  There are a few components in Windows 2012 that have hit version 3.0 and that's a big deal, one of those is Hyper-V.  What this really means is Microsoft's hypervisor platform has passed a milestone in maturity.  Typically when Microsoft brings a new technology to market it takes a few versions of fine tuning to really hit the mark.  During this time, some early adopters will use it for production workloads, but the majority of large enterprises will...
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Which Cloud is Right for my Business?
bpascua | 14 Mar 2013 | 0 comments

Cloud computing has long been a buzz word in the IT sector. A seemingly fitting definition of cloud is “a model for enabling convenient, on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort. Many organisations have cautiously been dipping their toes in the public cloud market. Many applications can be seamlessly delivered through public clouds which alleviate the need to on premise servers and reduce the capex costs involved with hosting these services on premise.  Public clouds offer the benefit of utilizing someone else’s  infrastructure to run IT workloads on a pay as you go basis thus reducing your capex costs. Private clouds are different since they leverage cloud technology and ultimately reduce overall opex costs and improve business agility. Many organisations particularly in the financial sector simply wont use public clouds for their mission critical...

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Beyond Luck & Guesses: Overcoming the High Cost of Worthless Op Risk Models
dennis.wenk | 27 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

The modern organization is highly dependent on information technology, simultaneously and quite unintentionally, information technology has introduced new exposures which have deceptively seeped into every layer of the financial organization.  The likelihood that an organization will experience a catastrophic loss from an IT-service interruption caused by an IT issue is far greater than an interruption coming from some disaster or ‘black swan’ event.  Still, the key to survival is allocating the appropriate amount of resources to the “right” risks; while that may include planning contingencies for a worse-case scenario, to be rational about risk more guidance regarding the investment tradeoffs that mitigate risk.

The “Big Question” is how to optimize scarce resources today, to achieve the greatest reduction in future losses.  The Big Question two components: (1) which risks are the serious ones and...

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Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions (SFHA) 6.0.3 is now available
TonyGriffiths | 01 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions (SFHA) 6.0.3 is now available

For AIX , Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux and HP-UX

SORT links are below:

 

Use SORT notifications to receive updates on new patches and documentation.

 

Cheers

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Symantec at the NetApp Insight Conferences
c3lsius | 09 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

It has been a busy end of 2012 indeed. Last November and December, a few of my colleagues and I represented the Storage and Availability Management team at the back-to-back NetApp Insight conferences in Las Vegas, Dublin and Macau. At this technically-oriented conference,we promoted our latest product partnership with NetApp, specifically for:

(1) Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware (vDMP)- provides performance, availability and visibility for block-attached storage for VMware ESX.

(2) Symantec Data Insight- helps customers improve data governance through data owner identification and visibility into data usage and access permissions.

Through conversations with NetApp's partners and product management employees from around the world, it is evident that there is a big opportunity for vDMP and Data Insight integrated with NetApp storage systems.

Besides from discussions about recent product launches at NetApp and key partnerships formed, some keynote...

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Top Viewed Content in 2012: Storage and Clustering Community
Kimberley | 08 Jan 2013 | 5 comments

What were Storage and Clustering community members reading in 2012? Here's a list of our top-viewed community content from last year.

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Did you know VxDMP offers context sensitive online user documentation ?
Hari Krishna Vemuri | 28 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

When using the VxDMP vSphere UI plugin, the vSphere administrator can quickly figure out the purpose of various VxDMP parameters, what the values represent, and how various operations can be performed using the online context sensitive documentation that is available along with the vCenter UI plugin.

 

The administrator can click the Help icon (?) on any of the VxDMP vSphere UI views and the information pertaining to the view is automatically presented in a popup window for quick reference.

 

 

The documentation is organized in form of chapters similar to the administration guide that comes with the product to help in quick reference. It  also allows keyword and...

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Did you know VxDMP remote CLI allows management of multiple hosts at the same time ?
Hari Krishna Vemuri | 28 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

The standard administration of a VMware vSphere environment is typically performed using the vSphere client UI, but some of the advanced functionality and automation can only be done using custom scripts that use the remote command line interfaces.

 

The VxDMP command-line packages can be obtained from the installation media or downloaded from VxDMP UI as shown below

 

 

VxDMP for VMware follows this philosophy and provides the familiar and widely-used cross-platform administration command line interfaces for the VMware ESX environment as well. The VxDMP commands can be executed from any Linux or Windows host that has the VxDMP command line...

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Did you know VxDMP makes maintenance of compliance easy across the virtual data center ?
Hari Krishna Vemuri | 28 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

With the sizes of data centers ever increasing, it has become a challenge to monitor the settings on the large number of servers in the environment and make them consistent so that compliance needs are met. Also, when new servers are provisioned in the environment, it’s a challenge to tune them according to the constraints of the operating environment.

 

VxDMP helps to reduce this burden on the vSphere infrastructure administrator by providing a bird’s eye view of the data center compliance under “Solutions and Applications” category under the ‘Home’ view of the vSphere UI client showing

  • Percentage and number of ESX hosts licensed with VxDMP,
  • Percentage and number of ESX hosts using VxDMP without a license
  • Percentage and number of ESX hosts which have not deployed...
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Did you know VxDMP allows you to monitor & manage the connectivity at transport link level making SAN maintenance easy ?
Hari Krishna Vemuri | 28 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

In large data centers, whenever the storage administrator requires to perform maintenance operations on a SAN infrastructure component, it’s difficult to identify all the entities in the data center are currently using it. Typically, the storage administrator needs to run various set of inquiries and provide list of transport identifiers (WWN mappings, iSCSI target IDs) that would be affected by the maintenance operation to the vSphere administrator who then, in turn, needs to search through the environment to identify the set of affected ESX hosts and the running virtual machines. This process is time consuming, tiring and error prone.  Additionally due to the dynamic nature of VMware, the configuration information can change very quickly; the location of a virtual machine may be different than it was mere minutes ago.

 

VxDMP helps ease this painful process by providing visibility into...

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