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Kimberley | 02 Nov 2010 | 3 comments

The Symantec Connect site consists of six communities, including Storage and Clustering. This blog provides an overview of some of the key information about navigating and participating in the Connect Storage and Clustering community and navigating through the Symantec Connect community site.

Discussion Forums

The Storage Management community forums are broken out by product. Here are some links to quickly get you to the right product forum area (you'll need to be logged in):

Eric Gao | 13 May 2009 | 0 comments

Here I put down some tips in the community, in case someone else suffers the same issue.

1. manually import agent/type
There is once a time, I have to install vxvm/vvr on a a server without X environment,  after done all the installation,   I found the problem I have to import few vcs types like RVG, RVGShared, RVGLogowner etc etc, that defined in file /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/VVRTypes.cf.  As I was using a citrix session and I am not allowed to install some X server software,  then that became a problem because I don't remember the syntax to so many commands,  normally I just import the file from hagui,  but not for this time.  Then what to do?   while later on, I got this tip from my friens,

/opt/VRTSvcs/bin/hacf -typetocmd /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/VVRTypes.cf -display

though the sumbcommand typetocmd is not showing up in man page or help page.   then all I...

Gaurav Sangamnerkar | 13 May 2009 | 0 comments

Many of times you need to know whether a product is End of Life (EOL)  Or End of Support (EOS)

Or you want to know when your current product is getting EOL or EOS

Use following link to determine the same:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/release_d...

Gaurav

Eric Gao | 13 May 2009 | 1 comment

There is once a time that I was tasked to downgrade vxvm from 5.0 to 4.1,  after the downgrade, all dgs are unable to import with some invalid configuration.  After gone through all the relevant document, I couldn't fnd any references. After open a case with symantec, I got the finial confirmation this is not supported and data backup & restore must follow the downgrade of binary vxvm software.

Having said that, my task was still there, without being supported, I still need to action this task and after several tests, it went through.  Pls note, this is NOT supported by symantec and you should NOT try this on production environment with proper backup in place.  Make a backup either from application level like file system level, or from lower level like disk level with such as EMC bcv etc etc.

Ok, let's walk through the procedure and you might provide a better sub steps, if so, pls contribute to this community to...

Kimberley | 01 May 2009 | 0 comments

In conjunction with Symantec Tech Support, we've started publishing a list of the monthly Tech Support 'Top Technotes' in the Storage Forums area. This is a compilation of the technotes that were most accessed by customers during the prior month. The list covers Storage Foundation Unix/Linux (including Volume Manager and File System), Storage Foundation Windows, and Storage Foundation Manager. Here's the Top Storage Technote April 2009 list. Visit the Technical Support site for full technotes, documentation and product downloads.

New Screencast Series
If you're looking for other ways to get updated product info, check out the available screencasts in the Connect Storage Videos section - these are hands-on product and feature demos created by Symantec's...

Darren Locke | 21 May 2009 | 1 comment

As a quick introduction, I am a product manager within the Symantec Information Management Group - specifically responsible for the File System Archiving component of Enterprise Vault.

We are always looking for input from our customers as to what they would like to see us developing next. One area that we've talked about internally for a while is that of Unix Archiving. By Unix Archiving I mean archiving content out of the Unix platform rather than an archiving application running on Unix. We would like to know whether you have demand for such an applicaton and if you do, what are the key features you would be looking for. If you are operating a unix environment, but not necessarily requiring Unix Archiving today, we would still like to hear from you to obtain environmental information.

To help us gather this information, we are conducting a short survey which should take 15-20 minutes to complete. If you do have an interest in this topic, we would very...

nicole_kim | 05 Mar 2010 | 0 comments

Check out Going from ‘Fat’ to ‘Thin’ Isn’t an Automatic in the Virtual World Either, the latest blog on thin provisioning by DCIG lead analyst Jerome Wendt. He breaks down the various scenarios for when the benefits of thin provisioning are easily realized and when it is not so readily recognized, as there can be issues with deployment and utilization in certain circumstances. He discusses how Veritas Storage Foundation’s SmartMove feature can help larger enterprises maximize their thin provisioning investment.

Jerome Wendt is the President and Lead Analyst of DCIG Inc., an independent storage analyst and consulting firm. Since founding the company in 2006, Mr. Wendt has published extensively in data storage publications and journals covering all facets of storage.

elizabetha nelson | 28 Apr 2009 | 0 comments

Problem/Symptoms

During snapshots, server jobs fail due to Storage is inaccessible to the Recovery Solution Server. The following event appears in the application event:

The data storage location 'F:\Altiris\DataStorage' is offline and not accessible now.
Local Event Code: 0x8008000f
System Event Code: 0x00000020: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
SbsName: , SbsKey: 0, 0

Data File Synchronization job for Synchronous Storage completes with errors.

Environment

Recovery Solution 6.2.2760 (SP2)
EMC CLARiiON SAN Storage*
Synchronous Storage

Cause

It is a physical (timing) problem on the storage.

Definition of the disk latency in a SAN environment is a very difficult task, because there are many physical and logical nodes: operating system, physical disks, RAID, one or more HBAs, one or more fibers (HBA > SAN), ports on SAN, may be fiber-switch, and so on...

Eric.Hennessey | 05 Mar 2010 | 0 comments

A very useful - yet often overlooked - feature of Veritas Cluster Server is Limits and Prerequisites. This feature is often used in conjunction with Service Group Workload Management (SGWM), but can also be implemented on its own. In this post, I'll describe what this feature does and how you can put it to use.

Limits and Prerequisites are attributes in VCS. Limits are system attributes applied to the cluster member nodes, while Prerequisites are attributes applied to service groups. Both are key/value type attributes defined by the user. To better understand how these two attributes work together, it's best to use a common scenario as an example.

Let's say I have a VCS cluster consisting of four nodes and four Oracle database service groups. Let's assume that (1) each node is provisioned identically with the same processor and memory power and (2) each service group places about the same amount of load on each system. Implementing SGWM will automatically keep...

Karthikeyan Sundaram | 24 Apr 2009 | 1 comment

 Medicine for “TB”:

I bought a setup where 1000 and 1000 GB’s of data stored in a storage box. Users frequently access this box to store their project related data’s. We had an audit before 2 weeks and when we check for the space usage, we found 50 % of space is occupied by the SQL DB’s that are copied to this box in daily manner. I have informed DB Administrators regarding this issue and they explained me the clear setup.

Our corporation System uses MS SQL as database engine. As servers don’t have much space to store DB backups(to store one more backup copies), SQL maintenance plan is scheduled to run in mid night to backup the db’s to storage box and VERITAS backup is scheduled to run in the morning to backup the DB backup files from Storage box. DB backup files will be backed up to tapes and tapes will be sending to offshore locations in weekly manner. Suddenly I got a question -“What about the DB files that were...