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Average storage utilization paints an incomplete picture
ScottK | 14 Feb 2012 | 0 comments

Some of the data I plan to analyze in this blog involve scale/size, including utilization. I've heard industry analysts and experts cite storage utilizations rates around 40%; Nicholas Carr recently spoke at Symantec and noted that at roughly 30%, storage was much more utilized than CPU (~12%). Since running a production website, I've gained a visceral awareness of what I previously knew conceptually. Namely, storage utilization is a tradeoff between two goals: keeping spare capacity in case it is needed, and storage cost.

I analyzed aggregate data uploaded to SORT by customers to look deeper into utilization. This analysis, of file system utilization, suggests that only measuring average utilization is misleading. By looking at the overall distribution, a richer picture emerges.

As seen in Figure 1 below, storage utilization is bimodal, i.e., it has two distinct peaks, one at 1% and one at 100%. In the context of...

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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

...

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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.

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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

Sign up to SORT notifications to receive automatic updates on new patches, agents & HCLs

 

1

Veritas Storage Foundation HA

Rolling Patch

sfha-sol_x64-5.1SP1PR3RP2

2011-09-28

2

Veritas Storage Foundation HA

Rolling Patch...

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New Release: Get the Private Cloud you Want From the Infrastructure You’ve Got
DLamorena | 16 Aug 2012 | 3 comments

Symantec today announced a major refresh to its Storage and Availability Management portfolio to help customers build the private cloud they want by transforming their existing infrastructure. Symantec’s high availability solutions will enable users to architect resilient private clouds with fast local or global recovery of complete business services and data replication across any distance to meet their recovery time/point objectives. Symantec can orchestrate the recovery of a business service, even if its components (various databases, application servers, and web servers) run on different operating systems or virtualization technologies. 

As more IT organizations move to the cloud, Symantec’s new storage management offerings will also help IT organizations manage and deliver elastic, resilient storage for cloud workloads by providing the ability to scale storage capacity up or down while applications remain online and reducing the storage footprint...

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Top 5 Things You Need to Know Before Coming to Vision Barcelona 2011
c3lsius | 28 Sep 2011 | 0 comments
  1. Anil Chakravarthy, Senior Vice President of Symantec’s Storage and Availability Management Group, will announce a major refresh of our high availability, disaster recovery and storage portfolio, including Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 and Cluster Server 6.0, during the Keynote Day 1 at 11 a.m.
  2. Not one but two lucky attendees will walk away with €250 Apple gift card each at the Storage and Availability Management Product Vision and Strategy Forum (PVSF): Building Resilient Private Clouds on Tuesday, 4th of October, 2:30 p.m. at room 112.
  3. Play our private cloud 6.0 game by attending one of the storage and availability management sessions or visit our booth at the Symantec Solutions Centre and identify two additional attributes of our private clouds for a chance to win an iPad 2.
  4. Listen to exciting customer stories of how Amadeus, Lotus Renault F1 racing team and a big energy company were able to solve their data centre challenges using...
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Symantec to appear at Storage Decisions Conference NYC Sept 19 - 20th.
Raissa_T | 15 Sep 2011 | 0 comments

Storage Decisions - "Where IT pros go to solve the storage challenges you face NOW" is coming to New York City on Sept 19th - Sept 20th, 2011.  The event will be held at the Hilton Americas 1335 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10019.   Come and join your fellow IT pros and stop by booth # 39 to learn how Symantec continues to be your trusted Storage partner. 

In particular, Symantec can help you address the challenges of business-critical virtualization and how you can achieve end-to-end visibility of your heterogeneous storage and host infrastructure, while increasing efficiency at each level of the storage supply chain.

  • Learn how you can report on wasted storage hosted on native or Symantec Storage Foundation systems, perform optimized thick to thin migrations, reclaim wasted storage allocations in thin provisioned arrays, and plan for optimized storage...
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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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New Product Release Update (RU2) Released: CommandCentral Storage 5.2 Release Update 2 for Windows and UNIX
Big_Bear | 09 Sep 2011 | 0 comments

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...

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New Rolling Patches Released for Storage Foundation High Availability Solutions and Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 MP4 RP1 on Linux
Big_Bear | 09 Sep 2011 | 1 comment

 New GA Rolling Patches (RP1) Released for Storage Foundation High Availability Solutions and Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 MP4 on Linux.

 The New Rolling Patches for 5.0 MP4 (RP1) can be downloaded from the SORT Web site: See the links below:

 Click the SORT links below to view the readme and issues fixed in 5.0 MP4 RP1 for Linux.

 NOTE#  275 incidents fixed and verified(Cross platform + Linux specific) in this release.

 SFHA

 sfha-rhel4_x86_64-5.0MP4RP1

https://sort.symantec.com/patch/detail/4938

 sfha-rhel5_x86_64-5.0MP4RP1

https://sort.symantec.com/patch/detail/4940

 sfha-sles10_i586-5.0MP4RP1

...

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