Storage Management

EMC Symmetrix V-Max with Veritas Storage Foundation: Applying Thin Provisioning Technology To Symmetrix V-Max Storage Arrays

This white paper addresses the implementation of Veritas Storage Foundation with EMC Virtual Provisioning technology to provide data migration capabilities. The ability to migrate data from traditional (or thick) storage onto thin devices will allow customers to take advantage of this new technology to increase storage utilization and optimization.

Stop Buying Storage Best Practices: Veritas CommandCentralStorage and Veritas Storage Foundation

A best practices guide for optimizing efficiency at each level of the storage stack, improving management practices along the stack, and encouraging efficient consumption behavior.

Start Thin, Get Thin, and Stay Thin with Thin Provisioning Technology from Symantec and 3PAR

This paper examines 3PAR Thin Provisioning software and also discusses how, for applications already deployed on legacy storage, IT administrators can successfully migrate existing volumes to a thin environment by leveraging Thin Provisioning 2.0 technology within 3PAR Utility Storage and Veritas Storage Foundation.

ESG Brief: Symantec Tackles Server and Storage Virtualization with launch of Veritas CommandCentral Storage 5.0

Simplified Operations and Reduced Storage Cost with Veritas Storage Foundation and Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning

Evaluating or deploying Thin Provisioning? Read this technical whitepaper for insights on how to efficiently migrate legacy data to a thin provisioned environment.

ESG Analyst Report - Critical Design Decisions: Server Virtualization and Networked Storage

IDC Executive Brief - Identifying Storage Management Challenges When Deploying Server Virtualization

Veritas CommandCentral Storage: An Integrated Approach to Storage Resource Management

Veritas CommandCentral Storage—Supporting the Virtual Enterprise

This white paper discusses the various virtualization categories, and demonstrates how CommandCentral Storage enables IT organizations to manage storage in the virtual enterprise.

Delivering Business Intelligence with Veritas CommandCentral Enterprise Reporter

Managing information, along with the storage infrastructure, has become a critical element of competitive strategy, and a necessary organizational competence across industries. This white paper discusses key concepts and considerations related to implementing a business intelligence platform for storage

Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 Dynamic Multi-pathing

A Guide to understanding how Dynamic Multi-pathing improves data availability and I/O performance as well as best practices for tuning DMP in Storage Foundation 5.0.

Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 for Windows : Best Practices for Storage Management

This technical document discusses storage design best practices for Microsoft Windows based servers that utilize the Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) solution for storage management. This paper will explain basic storage design principles for the Windows environment, as well as recommended storage practices for Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows.

Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows: Maintaining Optimum Availability in Microsoft Exchange Environments

This paper discusses the threats to availability in Microsoft Exchange environments and the tools available with Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows to address them.

Veritas CommandCentral by Symantec and the Storage Management Evolution

As IT budgets remain flat, data volumes increase, and a continued shortage of skilled individuals to manage the infrastructures persists, the need for better storage management is occurring now. This white paper discusses the challenges of storage resource management and provides suggestions to approaching the issues.

Desperate for Space in Your Data Center?

The Capacity to Succeed: Demand and Capacity Management

Storage Management for Virtual Environments

Attend this webcast discussing the state of server virtualization as it relates to storage management and learn how to preserve and apply storage management techniques that you rely on in your physical environment to server virtualized environments as well.

Sean Derrington, Director, Storage Management and High Availability

Delivering High Availability for Mission-critical Applications in a Windows Server Environment

As Windows Server moves up into the datacenter, more organizations are running mission-critical applications on Windows - Microsoft Exchange and applications based on Microsoft SQL Server are the most obvious examples. With increasing scale, comes increasing management complexity.

Saveen Pakala, Senior Product Manager and Paul Belk, Senior Technical Product Manager

Really Really Fast Failover for SAP with Veritas Cluster File System High Availability from Symantec

SAP is viewed by many as a mission-critical application, with low tolerance for down-time. Your organization can benefit from really fast failover by using a robust, datacenter-proven, highly scalable file system. Listen to this live webcast and learn how SAP down-time can be significantly reduced.

David Noy, Senior Product Manager and Paul Belk, Senior Technical Product Manager

Storage Management Considerations in Virtual Environments

Virtualization solves the server sprawl problem allowing organizations to consolidate their physical environments to save money on power, cooling and space. However, server virtualization presents a new set of storage management complexities and challenges that may not have been anticipated.

Mike Reynolds, Product Marketing Manager and Roger Reid, Technical Product Manager

Veritas Storage Foundation: Simplifying Heterogeneous Data Migrations and Data Mobility

All server and storage hardware has a useful life. And, unfortunately performing data migrations and array migrations are a question of when not if. Additionally with heterogeneous data centers and new technologies being introduced, infrastructure flexibility is paramount to business agility. Attend this webcast to learn how the centralized management of Veritas Storage Foundation dramatically simplifies storage management, enables dynamic heterogeneous array migration, and enables heterogeneous server migrations.

Sean Derrington, Director, Storage Management

Improving Storage Utilization with a Storage Service Management Approach

Join this webcast to learn how Veritas CommandCentral Storage will help you reduce your storage costs by understanding the current state of the storage infrastructure, improve storage utilization rates by 30% or more, and enable tiered storage and leverage the existing storage assets within your environment.

Sean Derrington, Director, Storage Management Data Center Management Group

Mastering Storage Complexity

Bringing Order to the Data Center

Gaining Control of the Storage Environment

Advanced Storage for Microsoft Exchange

When the CIO asks “What’s our Current Storage Utilization?”

Learn more about how the unified architecture within the CommandCentral Family enables centralized visibility and control across heterogeneous storage environments.

Ketan Shah, Sr. Product Manager, CommandCentral

Storage Foundation for Databases

Join Gautham Ravi, Group Product Manager, and host Bob Bedore, in this Symantec Connect video as they discuss how Storage Foundation for Databases (Oracle, Sybase, DB2) enables powerful manageability, optimum performance, and continuous access to DB2, Oracle, and Sybase databases.

Gautham Ravi, Group Product Manager, Storage Foundation for Databases

Hands-On Demo: Veritas Storage Foundation HA Plug-in for Oracle and Oracle RAC

"Join Gautham Ravi, Group Product Manager for Storage Foundation for Databases, as he provides a hands-on technical demo of the Veritas Storage Foundation HA Plug-in for Oracle and Oracle RAC. You'll learn how this free plug-in extends Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to add support for managing the Veritas Storage Foundation storage stack and RAC extensions."

Gautham Ravi, Group Product Manager, Storage Foundation for Databases

Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows

Learn how to protect mission critical applications with one workflow using Symantec Solution Centers. Listen in as Manav Deshmukh, Sr. Technical Product Manager, talks about how Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows monitors and protects data and applications ensuring availability of data - at all times.

Manav Deshmukh, Sr. Technical Product Manager, Storage Foundation HA for Windows

Introducing Veritas Installation Services and Veritas Operations Services

Veritas Installation Services (VIAS) and Veritas Operations Services VOS offer a suite of free Web-based tools to help you install, patch, get visibility into the status and configuration, and upgrade your Storage Foundation and High Availability deployments. View this video and learn how these tools can simplify and streamline many of your deployment management tasks.

State of the Data Center Highlights

Rob Soderbery, SVP of Storage and Availability Management Group sits down with Sean Derrington, Director of Product Marketing, and shares his perspective on the results of the State of the Data Center Survey. Learn about the many challenges and trends facing IT today.

SLA Assurance: High Availability with Symantec Cluster File System, Part 2

Infrastructure complexity introduces unpredictability regarding recovery time and data integrity for critical applications. Symantec Cluster File System (CFS) provides a consistent enterprise-wide platform to assure application availability and recoverability. In this video, David Noy, Senior Product Manager for CFS describes how CFS can facilitate faster failover, lower cost and high availability for almost any application.

High Availability with Symantec Cluster File System - Part 1

Clustered file systems can dramatically shorten application failover and improve availability. In this video, David Noy, Senior Product Manager for Symantec Cluster File System (CFS) explains what a clustered file system can do, how Cluster File System fits into the modern data center and the unique advantages that CFS delivers.

David Noy, Sr. Product Manager, Storage Foundation Cluster File System

Simple, Smarter Data Migration with Storage Foundation for Windows

Get a quick overview on how easy and quickly Storage Foundation for Windows enables you to migrate data within your Windows environment with ZERO downtime, so there is no interruption to your end users. Listen in as Sr. Product Manager, Lisa Erickson, describes how SmartMove, a feature of the product, allows you to “get thin” as only used blocks of data are moved between arrays.

Lisa Erickson, Sr. Product Manager, Storage Foundation for Windows

Get Thin and Stay Thin

Learn how Storage Foundation enables you to leverage the power of thin provisioning to increase your storage utilization rate, lower costs and simplify storage management operations.