Will you be attending any of the NetApp Insight conferences? Symantec will be there on:

• Nov 5-8, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Nov 13-16, Dublin, Ireland
• Dec 11-13, Macau PRC

Stop by the Symantec booth and attend our breakout presentation to learn more about our on-going partnership with NetApp and data protection and storage availability solutions. Hope to see you there!

Configuration wizard for creating a cluster provides option to setup LLT with Ethernet or UDP/IP protocol. This post provides some details on which option to choose. 

Cluster configuration wizard (VCW) detects NIC cards available for configuring LLT network links on each windows server.  Selecting NIC(s) for each server configures LLT to use Ethernet protocol.  If is important to make sure that each NIC is connected (either directly OR via a layer 2 switch) via separate network hardware for increased fault tolerance.  This is relatively easy to ascertain for Ethernet, since connection traverses a few network components. All windows servers connected to same Ethernet  are able to discover each other (ARP) dynamically.  This makes changing network configuration for cluster relatively simple. LLT traffic network overhead is low.  For large number of virtual machines hosted on a hypervisor in a datacenter, this type of...

Symantec ApplicationHA on IBM LPAR (PowerVM) is now offered with IBM PureFlex System, a new class of expert integrated systems, delivering simplicity of deployment and operation to the customers. Pre-packaged in a Virtual Appliance form factor, the customer receives ApplicationHA together with AIX 7.1 in one image. The image is available on trialware at https://www4.symantec.com/Vrt/offer?a_id=151397

ApplicationHA can be configured to control and provide visibility to the application of your choice, including Oracle, DB2, Apache, WebSphere etc.

This is a good endorsement from IBM of Symantec's ApplicationHA product. We are looking into expanding this activity to include more products from Symantec.

With this activity, Symantec has joined an elite group of third party vendors including VMWare & Juniper who bundle their offerings as part of IBM PureFlex systems.

"Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) is a set of Web-based tools that supports Storage Foundation and NetBackup products.

SORT automates and simplifies some of the most time-consuming administrator tasks. It is designed to help you, the system administrator, identify risks in your data centers and improve operational efficiency, enabling you to manage the complexity associated with data center architectures and scale." - [Courtesy : SORT Website]

Way back in October 23, 2007, one of the Storage Foundation customers uploaded the first Install Assessment report to SORT.

Today, after 5 years, the SORT user community has grown in leaps and bound numbering to thousands of customers and partners.  Together, we've run tens of thousands of Install assessment, Risk Assessment and Product deployment reports.

Based on continuous feedback and on...