Good morning all,

     Finally was able to get away and login and start a blog.

     Our meeting to this point have been very informative and we get a lot of feed back from the group. But now going forward that we have the blog up and running maybe we can keep in touch better and be able to bounce questions off of each other for best practices and also just let others know what we are doing in our own Data Centers. 

     Merry Christmas to all have a safe holiday season and look forward to seeing you in 2010.

God Bless,
Ed

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Hi,

I have Veritas Storage Foundation HA/DR with VVR option. I did all the installation, configuration, setup and replication when both main site servers and DR site server were located in one location with 100 Mb/s bandwidth.

Before moving the DR server to remote location, We decided to simulate the environment and changed the bandwidth into the real available bandwidth that will be in future (2 Mb/s).

There is no more than 3 GB daily changes at main site and we had no problem before applying (End of Day) patch that makes 1 GB changes in less than 5 minutes which caused the Veritas replicated volumes to hang despite the replication mode is Asynchcronous. When applying the same patch with 100 Mb/s bandwith we had no problem.

Veritas Storage Foundation version is 5 MP2 and the operating system is Linux RHEL 4 x64.

Regards,

Abdallah Alsaleh

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