A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to visit one of the Symantec customers I work with. They have been using VOM for a while and I wanted to hear from them how they are using our products. It was very nice to see how much value it is providing to them. Big topics where VOM is helping are around Compliance, Performance Statistics and Manageability.

When having an environment with hundreds of servers, having a way to determine the patch levels, versions, packages, etch is very important. Even more important to understand that all the configuration is running in compliance. This customer is using signatures from VOM and have even developed his own ones to verify every day that all the configuration is as it should be.

Another topic very appreciated is how VOM is helping them with performance statistics. It is very easy now to detect I/O peaks in advance that could lead to greater problems. Once they get the alert, they go to the...

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Last year when Symantec Solutions Architect that we work with asked us to try VOM, I shrugged off the idea thinking it might be just another product. It was not until two months ago when we needed to have a web based VCS Client (SAs were doing remote desktop sessions to various terminal servers some of those did not have VCS Java Clients that was quite frustrating when responding to an urgent call) so we thought of installing VOM. The moment I installed this product, with little effort it was ready to go. What we originally adopted as a web based client proved much more than that, it is in fact our official monitoring dashboard. Great thing about VOM is you can add Solaris Cluste Nodes and that will provide visibility to all the Solaris Virtual Zones running on the hosts and even Oracle databases running inside the zones. Then you can add VCenter Server and that will provide visibility to all the virtual machines running on ESXi hosts connected to the VCenter...

Introducing Veritas Operations Manager 5.0 and Veritas Operations Manager Advanced 5.0

Over the past year, many technology conferences discussed about explosive data growth. If you attended some, you’ve probably seen the quote that “the growth of data is 40% to 60% over the next two years1” multiple times up on the big screen. True enough, this problem warrants a storage solution that can keep up with data growth while minimizing the risk of unexpected errors or downtime and managing diversity in the data center.

Every IT vendor is trying to tackle this problem and the other challenges that come into play in storage and availability management:

• Increased expectations to be up and running 24x7
• Complexity and diversity with array vendors, applications and platforms
• Low storage utilization rate
• Introduction of new technologies

Let’s take the example of new technologies, such as...