Evaluating
Kimberley
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November 11th, 2009
When: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11 am PST/2 pm EST
Speaker: Paul Belk, Senior Technical Product Manager
Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1 will be releasing Service Pack 1 (SP1) in November. This SP1 release includes an eye-popping list of extended features and additional functionality that enables this product to maintain its competitive edge in the storage management and availability space for the Windows environment.
Paul Belk, Senior Technical Product Manager, will provide an overview on what is entailed with the release. Some highlights include extended platform and operating system coverage, improved hardware array support and integration for Dynamic Multi-Pathing, thin provisioning discovery and reclamation with SmartMove, and quick recovery with FlashSnap for Sharepoint 2007 and Enterprise Vault 8.0. Tune in to learn more about what is included with the SP1 release for Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows 5.1.
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nicole_kim
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October 15th, 2009
“Best Practices for Storage Management and High Availability in your Microsoft Data Center” is now available online in the Things You Need to Know section of the Windows IT Pro website and is also in the September 2009 issue of Windows IT Pro.
Published by the Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows product team, 6 best practices for storage management and high availability are outlined for IT managers and system administrators to abide by. Enjoy!
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Rishi Manocha
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October 14th, 2009
Join Laura Shepard, Group Product Manager for Veritas Storage Foundation, as she talks about using Veritas Storage Foundation and high availability products in a Solaris environment, including the importance of standardization, moving to clustered file systems, and workload performance.
Video Length: 8:46
Resources:
Veritas Storage Foundation Basic – Free-license version of Veritas Storage Foundation
Veritas Storage Foundation and Sun Solaris ZFS - This whitepaper compares how Veritas Storage Foundation and Solaris ZFS perform for commercial workloads. The paper describes not only the raw performance numbers, but also the system and storage resources required to achieve those numbers.
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SwathiTurlapaty
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October 5th, 2009
I am trying to think creative on a Monday morning and am quiet happy to get this phrase in my mind.."JUST ONE WORD".
Yeah...it's my call-out for the most you can say about a Symante'c Backup & Archiving product with just ONE happy word. For example: "Enterprise Vault is Execeptional Vault". Just shout back on this thread, as we can continue to witness the wonderful "one word" stories about our favourite products :-).
Backup and Archiving, Backup Exec, Backup Exec System Recovery, Evaluating, Backup Reporter, Enterprise Vault, NetBackup, NetBackup PureDisk, NetBackup RealTime Protection, Online Backup, Online Storage for Backup Exec, Replication Exec
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bduckering
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September 30th, 2009
The cost of managing and maintaining endpoint devices has skyrocketed as users become more mobile and IT tries to maintain security and control. Brian Duckering, Senior Product Marketing Manager with Symantec’s Endpoint Virtualization Group, explains the real reasons the costs are increasing and presents a practical approach to containing those costs in a way that also enhances user productivity and flexibility.
Go to www.symantec.com/business/endpoint-virtualization-suite to download software, trialware and whitepapers or view success stories.
Video Length: 24:20
Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Evaluating, Features, News, Reporting, Virtualization, Workspace Virtualization
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rwrad
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September 2nd, 2009
OS: Windows 2003 Server on AD Domain
Server Function: Fileserver
Amount of Data: 250+GB
BE Version: 12.5
I am going to be doing a full restore of data back to the original server and drive it originated on due to having to break an array to expand/extend.
My question is:
If I do the restore back to the original drive but redirect the restore through a peer-to-peer 1Gbps connection instead of the 100Mbps connection the server has to the switch will the restored files retain the original security configuration they had when they were backed up?
I personally believe they will but I want to ask just to be 100% sure.
Also does anybody see any issues with doing a restore in this manner?
Thank you very much, in advance for your help!
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Rishi Manocha
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August 25th, 2009
Managing enterprise-level infrasturctures on a Linux platform can be challenging.Laura Shepard, Group Product Manager for Veritas Storage Foundation, discusses how standardization and a single, powerful set of tools that span operating systems and storage infrastructures can provide a foundation for standardized backup, disaster recovery and other data management and protection services.
Video Length: 9:32
Resources:
Veritas Storage Foundation Basic – Free-license version of Veritas Storage Foundation
Powering Linux in the Data Center - Read about Symantec data center solutions that span traditional data protection services for the Linux platform to advanced disk-based data protection, enterprise storage management, server management, application availability, and business continuity and disaster recovery.
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Randall Cochran
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August 18th, 2009
Today’s economic climate is unlike anything we’ve recently seen and Symantec recognizes that our partners may be experiencing new challenges to their businesses. It may be more difficult to access extra capital or there may be a decrease in buying power or cash flow. Symantec’s partners are our most vital sales channel and we’re committed to helping them continue to increase their revenue, grow their business and thrive, even in these difficult economic times.
Symantec is pleased to offer the Extended Terms Financing Program providing free 60-day extended payment terms for selected products from August 10, 2009 through January 29, 2010. Exclusively for Symantec Registered and Silver North American Partner Program Members possessing an SMB Specialization, the Symantec Extended Terms Program offers credit at no cost to partners enabling them to manage their cash flow with confidence and without disruption to business operations. The savings can be put to their bottom line, or...
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Rishi Manocha
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August 13th, 2009
Storage Foundation Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) enables data to be dynamically moved to different storage tiers to rapidly respond to changing business needs. In this interview with Laura Shepard, Group Product Manager for Veritas Storage Foundation, she talks about the complexities of data movement and how dynamic storage tiering affects performance and storage utilization. She also describes the differences between hardware and software tiering capabilities.
Video Length: 07:37 Minutes
Resources:
Veritas Storage Foundation Basic – Free-license version of Veritas Storage Foundation
DST Analyzer Tool - Download the free tool to quantify the benefits of DST in your environment
DST Analyzer Tool screencast demo - Join Murthy Mamidi, Symantec Technical Director, as he walks through how to set up and use the free DST Analyzer tool
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Murthy Mamidi
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July 2nd, 2009
Have you heard of Dynamic Storage Tiering but are not sure of the benefits it can provide you? Join Murthy Mamidi, Symantec Technical Director, as he walks through how to set up and use the free Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) Analyzer tool designed for Storage Foundation and available for download from the Symantec Connect Storage Downloads page.
Murthy demonstrates how the Analyzer operates in two stages; in the first stage, it collects ownership, file size, and age information from any UNIX file system — Veritas Storage Foundation doesn’t have to be present at all. In the second stage, the Analyzer examines the data against user- specified storage costs and placement policies to determine the storage utilization and cost under different DST policy scenarios. Data from multiple file systems can be combined to answer questions about cost savings that would result from file system consolidation.
Once you've watched the screencast, you can download and try out the free,...
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jace5869
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May 8th, 2009
When tryingto run
GhDplyAw32 /target=D: /ddb=C:\WINDRIVERS\ /eval
or
GhDplyAw32 /target=D: /ddb=C:\WINDRIVERS\
It will just sit there - No activity heard from hard drive or cd-rom - indefinetly.
It says this...
Using Driver Database = C:\WINDRIVERS
Target OS = XP
Target = C:\WINDOWS
Retargeting... <or> Performing Evaluation
Why does it do this? Is it license related? These commands are ran manually and not through the console...So I don't understand what it is..
Basics, Endpoint Management and Virtualization, Configuring, Error messages, Evaluating, Features, Training, Ghost Solution Suite
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sebastiaan
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April 16th, 2009
A few weeks ago, a couple of my co-workers visited a workshop about a new course: ethical hacking. In short, it teaches system administrators how to try and hack your own system, to check it's vulnerabilities and find out whether your security needs working on. The course is also available for pretty much everyone else, but that on a side note.
When i heard about it, the only thing that sprung to my mind was "WTF??". Are we really going to TEACH people to hack, how to do it and what to do with it? Why not just build a program for it then? That would make things a lot easier: Microsoft Hacking 2007 or something, ofcourse licensed, but that would not be a problem, since - well it is a hacking tool, right?
As i remember in the good ol' days, hacking was staring at black screens, learning, adapting to what you found and working with that information. It was almost completely auto-didacted by people that wanted to know. That made hackers good system admins, if and when they...
Security, Basics, Best Practice, Case Study, Evaluating, Critical System Protection, Tip/How to, Network Access Control
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ThiagoDias
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April 1st, 2009
Hi there, we installed in our environment of Windows Server 2003 SP2 the Endpoint Protection version 11.0.4000.2295 last January.
The question is we need check how many days they are usable before the antivirus engine stops to work.
As far as I remember, during the installation there was a warning that without notice/warn the engine will stop after the five mouths of trialware.
Does someone know how to check it out?
Thank you.
Thiago Dias.
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Ravi Rajan
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March 30th, 2009
Hi,
We are in the evaluation stage of Mail Security for Exchange Server 6.0 and have hit a road block.
We have two different domains (management domain & server domain). Console is installed in the management domain and we add the exchange servers (in server domain) using IP addresses. While we deploy the agents from the console, it asks for authentication credential in the server domain and after which agent deployment works fine.
After this when we try to access the groups containing these servers, it asks for authentication against each server before it can pull its data (service state, signature version etc..) This is a bit annoying as we have around 15-20 servers in the group and we have to key in the same authentication credentials for each server and each time it tries to query data for these servers.
Can this be avoided somehow ?
We are in the evaluation stage and hence any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ravi
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peksu
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March 30th, 2009
Hello,
I have run the tool on vista computer which was provided on 25 top questions before posting here.
Tools gives 16 ok:s and no errors. Network discovery is "On".
Still vista computers are listed on unknown computers on the end point manager and
deployment fails.
I have succeeded to deploy endpoint manager to only one vista laptop computer.
There is no known difference on configuration of the failing computers.
Vista computers are all business versions and are part of a same domain, so is manager and servers.
Endpoint manager is running on Windows Server 2008 Standard and it seems to be working ok.
At least this one working vista computer is getting virus definitions and was deployed ok remote and
also WIndows Server 2003 and 2008 Server computers were also deployed ok.
We will be migrating from Norman to Endpoint if we get this working.
I now am using trialware endpoint 11.
Should we first uninstall Norman? In succeeded deplyment I did not uninstall and it worked.
We...
11.x, Security, Basics, Security Risks, Configuring, Evaluating, Installing, Endpoint Protection (AntiVirus)
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Paul Mapacpac
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March 25th, 2009
Questions;
1. 1. These systems need to be in our DMZ, how can we access them to pull the logs?
2. 2. Can we configure some type of Active Directory list of valid SMTP users that are allowed emails though?
3. 3. How does the PCI Compliance portion work? In detail?
4. 4. Some basic troubleshooting features that we can use to determine if messages are coming in, messages get dropped, or determine when a message was received?
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jporter
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March 24th, 2009
We are evaluating sep for a large install. I've looked at the Symantec DB sizing document, but was also hoping to get some first hand samples from the trenches. What volume of client log entries (system client server activity, client activity, security, traffic, etc.) do you see per client?
Any suggestions on estimating DB size?
Thanks
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Jeff K.
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March 12th, 2009
I have had 3 Computers in the last week that have been infected with Vundo.H. SEP 11 MR4 finds it but cannot clean it automatically. It comes back after each reboot. It does not appear to be a new virus and Symantec has a cleaning tool available but I don't understand why I should have to go through a manual process to clean this.
I am getting pressure from my management as to why Symantec isn't cleaning this automatically. We have paid a lot for SEP why isn't it automatically cleaning this up? We are discussing running a third party anti-malware product in addition to SEP but this should not be necessary if SEP was working as advertised.
Security, Basics, Best Practice, Compatibility, Security Risks, Configuring, Evaluating, Performance, Reporting, Endpoint Protection (AntiVirus), Tip/How to
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CKT
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March 11th, 2009
I am currently testing SEP MR4 MP1 and ran into a weird problem. I had a couple of machines that have a weekend reboot schedule. This past Monday, March 9th, the test machines with SEP installed wasn't able to log onto the domain. It would just hang after initiating logon. After looking at it for a while, we finally narrowed the problem down to SEP. Before a user tries to logon, the machine can access the network and vice versa. When a user with logon scripts (we use ScriptLogic) logs on, the SEP Network Threat Protection kicks on and blocks all traffic in and out of the machines. This stops ScriptLogic from functioning properly and hangs the machine, nor can you do a soft reboot or bring up task manager. A hard reboot is required, and the remedy that I came across was to log on with an admin account that have no logon scripts and then toggle the Network Threat Protection to 'off' and then back to 'on'. That in itself is alarming. What's more alarming is that the Network Threat...
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GertjanA
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March 11th, 2009
Hello fellow EV-admins, users, supporters,
My name is Gertjan. I am Dutch. (it ain't much if it ain't dutch!)
I am working for a contracting firm called T2. I've been placed at one of the largest EV implementations in the Netherlands. Due to the nature of the environment (as pointed out by someone..) I will not post too much about it.
It is big. Over 95000 mailboxes, over 75000 active archives
Besides managing Enterprise Vault, I also manage a little the Exchange environment.
Current version is EV2007SP2, planning to go to 8.0SP2 (august?)
I cannot promise to post regularly, but will try to do so.
I'm getting used to the new forum-layout, but this Blog is definitely an addition to it.
I'm an MCSE+Messaging2003, MCTS, Symantec Certified Specialist EV2007 for Exchange Administrator (yep, proud of it.)
oh, forgot... Running the EV-servers as VM's... The index and storagedisks are SAN based. (EVA)
Basics, Backup and Archiving, Beta, Best Practice, Certification, Compatibility, HP-UX, Configuring, Documentation, Downloads, Error messages, Evaluating, MS Exchange, Features, Installing, VMware, Licensing, Windows, Patch, Performance, Reporting, Tip/How to, Enterprise Vault, Upgrade, Virtualization
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SubodhB
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March 10th, 2009
Hi,
If you are an exisiting Symantec Mail Security for Domino (SMSDOM) customer and/or would like to Beta test SMSDOM 8.0 release. Then please register on http://symbeta.symantec.com with product preference as SMSDOM.
Thanks.
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SeanD.
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March 9th, 2009
Written by: Sean Derrington, Josh Kahn, Paul Massiglia
This Symantec Yellow Book describes how to standardize storage configuration and administration across all of a data center's platforms to result in better quality of service at lower administrative cost. Storage architects, administrators, integrators, and consultants need to know about the Storage Foundation and how it can reduce their cost to deliver service.
Download book.
Contents
Chapter 1: The what and why of standardized storage management
Chapter 2: The Storage Foundation virtualization platform
Chapter 3: A closer look at the Storage Foundation core: the VxVM Volume Manager
Chapter 4: A closer look at the Storage Foundation core: the VxFS File System
Chapter 5: A closer look at the Storage Foundation: Dynamic Multi-pathing
Chapter 6: A closer look at the Storage Foundation: the Storage Foundation Management Server
Chapter 7: Using the Storage Foundation
Chapter 8 Making standardization happen
Download book
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Bsalyer
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March 5th, 2009
I have Endpoint Manager and Live Update Administrator running on the same server (servers are limited) but it seems recently the server has been getting overloaded. How much resources should SEPM or LUA take?
SemSvc is taking 667M of Ram
Tomcat5 is taking 200M
dbsrv9 at 151M
and 11 Postgres.exe instances runing around the 40M mark
is this normal? It seems really high...
note: not a fan of picking the product and topics before i can post
11.x, Agents, Security, Basics, Best Practice, LiveUpdate, Compatibility, Security Risks, Configuring, Evaluating, Features, Installing, Windows, News, Performance, Reporting, Endpoint Protection (AntiVirus), Upgrade
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Jeff K.
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March 4th, 2009
Does the thread still exist on this issue. I would like to hear if this patch is working. Can anyone update if this has solved the problem. If the old thread is still around it should be made sticky so it can be found at the top.
The new site sucks.
11.x, Security, 10.x, 9.x and Earlier, Best Practice, Compatibility, Configuring, Evaluating, Features, Installing, Windows, News, Reporting, Endpoint Protection (AntiVirus), Upgrade
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phil samg
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February 27th, 2009
Current Business Scenario: The current recessionary economic cycle has introduced a great deal of uncertainty into the business climate. Organizations are reluctant to spend any more money than absolutely necessary, which has limited or delayed the acquisition of IT equipment that otherwise might have been routine. Forecasts vary widely for the depth and length of any recession, but it is clear that 2009/2010 budgets are uncertain at best and hedged against a prolonged downturn.
If there is a silver lining, it is that IT organizations can use this opportunity to consolidate existing projects without pressure to begin new ones. This means that the immediate focus should be on optimizing existing systems and how to extend their useful life. The other bit of good news is that many organizations have 50% or more available storage capacity that may accommodate the organization’s needs for the foreseeable future. Plus, many technologies currently exist that can help optimize...
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