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1,000 Solutions and Counting....

LeslieMiller
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If you've ever posted a question or looked for a solution in the Backup and Storage communities, chances are good that you have crossed paths with Trusted Advisor Marianne Van Den Berg. Recently Marianne reached 1,000 solutions--an amazing milestone, and one that we're considerably proud...

Posted: 17 May 2012 | 22 comments
Symantec and Red Hat: Delivering Enterprise Ready Linux Solutions for Business-Critical Applications

Kimberley
Admin

Are you looking for a flexible, agile and low cost Linux solution for your data center that helps your business stay resilient even in face of unplanned down time? Red Hat is recognized as the Linux leading provider that lowers total cost of ownership with its scalability, advanced capabilities...

Posted: 10 May 2012 | 0 comments
Don't be that guy

Eric.Hennessey
Symantec Employee
Certified

A funny thing happened the other day when I went to one of my favorite sites to look up a word...I saw the above message, but looking at the redirect URL, it says "failover-namechangedtoprotecttheinnocent.com". Now, far be it from me to be correcting the vocabulary of a site whose stock...

Posted: 03 May 2012 | 0 comments
Symantec Vision 2012 Brings You the Swiss Army Knife of the Data Center

c3lsius
Symantec Employee

Symantec Vision is right around the corner- two more weeks, specifically, from May 7th to 10th in MGM Grand in Las Vegas. This year, Symantec's Storage and High Availability Management group brings to you the swiss army knife of the data center in order to optimize data center assets, ensure...

Posted: 27 Apr 2012 | 0 comments
Everything you think you know about clustering is wrong: If your clustering is expensive, you're doing it wrong

Eric.Hennessey
Symantec Employee
Certified

A couple days ago, I blogged about the related myths of complexity and unreliability regarding high availability (HA) clustering. Today I want to spend a little time on the myth that clustering is expensive. Early high availability clustering was as simple as it was primitive. Shared...

Posted: 13 Apr 2012 | 4 comments

new discussion 1 hour 52 min ago

fic123 posted: VM backup failing after installing SF Basic on Hyper-V Core server

Hi all, We have Hyper-V server with 10 virtual machines. We are using NetBackup 7.1.0.4 as backup software. Before installing SF Basic 6.0 , backup of all VM's was going fine. Now the backup of all VM's that are in running state is failing with error: Snapshot error encountered (156). Backup of VM's that are not running is going fine. I've installed SF Basic on a ...

discussion comment 2 hours 36 min ago

mikebounds commented on: Luns exported format from storage box

"vxdisk -e" may work - see extract from manual: If the -e option is specified, an additional two columns are displayed. The first column shows the OS-based disk access name. This option is useful if you have enabled enclosure-based naming. The second column shows the device-specific extended attributes. These attributes are specific to the device, like type of hardware mirroring ...

discussion comment 15 hours 40 min ago

Frode E commented on: Multiple Shares issue

Is there a fix/solution for SFW-HA 6.0 as well? Regards, Frode

discussion comment 19 May 2012

mikebounds commented on: Cluster Manager Java Console Usage

VOM is quite staightward to install, but just in case you are not aware, this needs to be installed on a server, not a client like VCS java GUI. So you can install VOM on a Linux server or Windows 2003 (which can be a Virtual Machine if you want) and then you (and other people) connect to VOM via a browser. So containers you create would be on the VOM server, not your win7 machine, ...

discussion comment 18 May 2012

Gaurav Sangamnerkar commented on: 3 Nodes Veritas Cluster Preventive Maintenance

I would like to suggest to check the new powerpath version you are trying to install is compatible with veritas volume manager or not ... each of powerpath versions do have a compatibility with volume manager ... what is SF version you are using ? if you are 3.5 on HP 11.11 , do check compatibility.... Also, are you using CVM/CFS ? is it a parallel cluster ? also as Mike said .... first ...

updated discussion 18 May 2012

sumit4sg posted: VCS behavior

We have one two node SFRAC cluster i.e parallel one. I need to understand the behaviour of VCS for the below situation. We have freezed one node by hasys -freeze node1 and then we pull both the heartbeat cables from the node. how will cluster behave ? Note:--> there is no lowpri heartbeat link and there is only two normal HB links. ...

updated discussion 18 May 2012

swapneel posted: Setting up a 2 node cluster

Hi Iam new to VCS .I have installed VCS Trial Version 6.0 on my 2 rhel05 Virtual Machine. VCS is installed and running on both the Machine.But iam not able to create a 2 node cluster out of it. Can any one help me out ?? 1 7019111 ...

updated blog entry 18 May 2012

Rags Srinivasan posted: Big Data and Spurious Correlations

Suppose you read the following headline in a major newspaper article, what would you think? Student Test Scores Tied to Number of Bathrooms in their Homes Let us say, this article is also associated with a chart showing this relation Look at those near perfect correlations. Should we start adding more bathrooms to help our children? Except there is no such ...

updated blog entry 18 May 2012

Rags Srinivasan posted: Symantec Solution for Big Data Featured in IDC Link

IDC analysts Jean S. Bozman and Laura DuBois published their latest analysis from Symantec Vision conference. In the May 15th IDC LINK (subscription required) they had this to say about Symantec solution (bold text mine) Big Data. Symantec is readying a product that leverages its clustering file system (CFS) to manage Hadoop-style workloads for the enterprise, ...

updated blog entry 18 May 2012

Rags Srinivasan posted: Hadoop

Get early access: Please register here to learn more about our Big Data offering and get early access to the software. Symantec Solution for Enterprise Hadoop is an add-on for customers using Veritas Cluster File System. This easy to install software enables Cluster File System customers run Big Data analytics on their existing infrastructure without investing in a ...

new discussion 1 hour 52 min ago

fic123 posted: VM backup failing after installing SF Basic on Hyper-V Core server

discussion comment 2 hours 36 min ago

mikebounds commented on: Luns exported format from storage box

discussion comment 15 hours 40 min ago

Frode E commented on: Multiple Shares issue

Is there a fix/solution for SFW-HA 6.0 as well? Regards, Frode

discussion comment 19 May 2012

mikebounds commented on: Cluster Manager Java Console Usage

discussion comment 18 May 2012

Gaurav Sangamnerkar commented on: 3 Nodes Veritas Cluster Preventive Maintenance

updated discussion 18 May 2012

sumit4sg posted: VCS behavior

updated discussion 18 May 2012

swapneel posted: Setting up a 2 node cluster

discussion comment 17 May 2012

jc066f@intl.att.com commented on: All disk is visible twice

- OS: Windows 2008 R2 SP1 - Multipath I/O feature was installed - Symantec Foundation for Windows v. 6.0 Reinstalation of SFW 6.0 solved the problem. Thank all for ideas!

discussion comment 16 May 2012

SamirRoul commented on: Mountpoint is not unmounting

In my environment I am using SFHA 5.1 SP1 on SuSE Linux 11 SP1. I was also facing the same kind of issue. I downloaded hotfix from below location and applied it. After applying the HF my issue got resolved. https://sort.symantec.com/patch/detail/5956

discussion comment 16 May 2012

g_lee commented on: Upgrade from VCS, VXVM 4.0 to 5.1

For VxFS - if you're installing 5.1SP1 or above you can use vxupgrade to upgrade the filesystem disk layout version from version 4 or 5. If you were installing 5.1GA/RP1/RP2 (ie: an earlier release than 5.1SP1) then you would need the hotfix detailed in technote 78028: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH78028 The technote seems to support Mike's ...

updated article 02 May 2012

niclas_blaback posted: Clustering configurations supported for VCS with vSphere

This technical application note includes the following topics: Veritas Cluster Server setup for VMware vSphere VCS cluster on a single ESX host VCS cluster across ESX hosts VCS cluster between physical and virtual machines Disaster recovery setups with clustering configurations Supported vSphere versions and guest operating systems Feature ...

updated article 20 Apr 2012

Eric.Hennessey posted: SFHA Product Page Links

For your browser bookmarking pleasure... I'm often asked for links to product information, but since we have so many products, it's kind of tough to remember them all, so I thought I'd put up this post as an easy way to get at commonly-requested links for Symantec's Storage and Availability Management Group (SAMG) products and solutions. So, starting with ...

updated article 09 Apr 2012

Ranga Rajagopalan posted: High Availability In Virtual Environments With Veritas Cluster Server and Symantec ApplicationHA

Symantec ApplicationHA is an easy-to-use availability solution specifically built for providing application availability in virtual environments. Veritas Cluster Server is the industry’s leading clustering solution for reducing business critical applications’ planned and unplanned downtime. Through a combination of Veritas Cluster Server and Symantec ApplicationHA, Symantec delivers the ...

updated article 09 Apr 2012

Virtually_LG posted: What are your high availability options if you are running vCenter Server in a virtual machine?

Whilst presenting to various customers and at many conferences about Symantec ApplicationHA solution, I often hear questions about the availability of a virtualized vCenter Server. There are various options available if your system is sitting on physical hardware, Symantec has Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), which has a dedicated vCenter agent to protect the various components of vCenter ...

updated article 09 Apr 2012

VR Satish posted: Architecting Resilient Private Clouds: A New Approach to Transform Your Existing Data Center into Your Private Cloud

Executive Summary This white paper proposes an approach to building resilient private clouds in an efficient and cost-effective manner. This idealized architecture incorporates solutions that address cloud server and storage needs and reconciles them with the realities of the data center such as heterogeneity and existing infrastructure. This paper also discusses how these solutions ...

updated article 02 Apr 2012

niclas_blaback posted: Strategies to Solve and Optimize Management of Multi-tiered Business Services

Executive Summary Historically, datacenter administrators have been faced with challenges while managing multi-tier business services. The modern datacenter is often heterogeneous in terms of hardware, software, operating system and virtualization technologies. While new technologies such as virtualization offer cost savings and flexibility, they also introduce complexity in ...

article comment 22 Mar 2012

Prasad Prabhu commented on: Cached Oracle Disk Manager: Usage Guidelines and Best Practices

thanyou for sharing the white paper

updated article 22 Mar 2012

RodP posted: Creating a Read-Only User account for SMIA operations in Network Advisor / DCFM for use with CommandCentral Storage

1. Create a new Role with “SMI Operations” privileges Example: User ->Roles – Click on Add > Add Role Window displays Give a name and description to new Role - example Role “SMI Operations” to be designed as a Role for SMI-S Agent Operations. > Available Privileges Table -> Select “ SAN – SMIA Operations ” and add it to “Read ...

updated article 22 Mar 2012

Kyle Gleed posted: VCS One- Backup and Recovery

Applicable Releases: VCS One 2.0 & 2.0RU1 10/5/2009 VCS One Backup and Recovery After implementing VCS One it’s important to have a good data protection plan to protect your Policy Master. The following discusses best practices for backing up the VCS One Policy Master. What to Backup There are two parts to a successful VCS One backup strategy: backing up the PM ...

article comment 08 Mar 2012

KRee commented on: Netbackup and VCS

Hi all , I'm currently running NBU 7.1.0.2 HA on linux cluster with local (within site , local cluster) and global failover (at a secondary site) After months of the setup being frozen to 1 master today we tried to have the cluster fail-over on the active cluster to the passive cluster and things went terribly wrong . As such we had logged a case with the Symantec support. However that ...

updated blog entry 18 May 2012

Rags Srinivasan posted: Big Data and Spurious Correlations

updated blog entry 18 May 2012

Rags Srinivasan posted: Symantec Solution for Big Data Featured in IDC Link

updated blog entry 18 May 2012

Rags Srinivasan posted: Hadoop

updated blog entry 17 May 2012

Rags Srinivasan posted: Big Data or Big Analysis

Does Big Data ( big on volume and variety) mean better insights? Taking this to the extreme, does Big Data eliminate application of thought? A recent New York Times article writes, Big Data, which should probably be called Big Analysis, is about looking at that information in novel ways to find new patterns for prediction. I agree with their call but let us not try to ...

blog entry comment 17 May 2012

rags_srinivasan commented on: Fixing Hadoop's Single Point of Failure With Veritas Cluster Server

Tim Look at it this way - NameNode failure will result in loss of access to the cluster. It is the DataNodes that have the data and run the tasks. Until Passive takes over, applications will lose access to the cluster. For example not able to complete MapReduce jobs. There is no data loss otherwise. Fixing NameNode SPOF is about increasing cluster availability. -Rags

updated blog entry 16 May 2012

Rags Srinivasan posted: Big Data Driven Marketing

Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership and the New York American Marketing Association (NYAMA) recently published their research on role of data and analytics in Marketing. Their report titled, " Marketing ROI in the Era of Big Data ",provides key insights into how enterprises are applying Big Data analytics in their marketing decisions. To me the most important ...

updated blog entry 16 May 2012

c3lsius posted: NetApp and Symantec Join Forces to Improve Data Governance over Unstructured Data

Unstructured data growth is exploding. According to Gartner, the growth of data is 40% to 60%, but for unstructured data in the enterprise, the growth rate can be up to 80% (2011). With this challenge in mind and after months of collaboration, NetApp and Symantec have developed Symantec Data Insight - a solution that integrates with NetApp storage systems, among others, to discover and ...

updated blog entry 15 May 2012

Sharad Srivastava posted: Symantec™ High Availability Solution for Hadoop Namenode

This blog describes the procedure to configure Hadoop Namenode for high availability under Veritas Cluster Server environment using the Agent Builder tool. Installing and Configuring Hadoop Namenode for High Availability Below are the tasks that needs to be performed for installing the Hadoop Namenode for clustering purposes: Allocating shared disk resources : ...

updated blog entry 11 May 2012

Rags Srinivasan posted: Customer Forum 2012 Presentations

Storage and Availability Management Group's Customer Forum 2012 was a big success. We had two days of highly technical discussion, hands-on lab activities and most importantly seveal in-depth customer conversations. The event received an overall rating of Excellent (5.8 on a scale of 6.0) with individual sessions rated at 5.6 or higher. Thank you for all those who took the time to ...

updated blog entry 11 May 2012

snayak posted: Storage Foundation Snapshot Technologies

Storage Foundation snapshots are used extensively for various routine tasks such as backup, continuous access and reporting. VERITAS File System and Volume Manager implements multiple ways of creating a snapshot of data. This presentation covers the overview and use cases of all the snapshot technologies available in VxFS and VxVM, including Storage Checkpoints, FileSnap and volume level ...

download comment 18 May 2012

vsemenov commented on: VCS Simulator 5.1

Its Sumulator version 5.0 :-( IMHO

download comment 26 Mar 2012

aborzenkov commented on: VCS Bash completion - Bash Completion for VCS CLI

Being infrequent VCS CLI user myself I would definitely wlecome this addition. Actually being maintained part of VCS is prerequisite for it being useful. In my experience not up-to-date completion definitions is often worse than no completion at all. Thank you!

download comment 15 Mar 2012

guy.heirman commented on: Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF) Configuration utility for VCS 5.1SP1

Antony, I have storage Foundation 5.1SP1Rp2, played with haimfconfig command. Works fine. I also can get the status with #amfstat, no problem there. But there is also a manifest called system/amf It does not properly disable / enable all IMF agents. Should we use the manifest in this release ? I noticed that when the manifest is disabled IMF works ...

updated download 27 Jan 2012

Anoop_Kumar posted: Script for Veritas DMP Multipath Status Check on Multiple servers

Hello, I was in need to generate a report on multipathing status on all Unix server. We are not having any tool for this need and VOS was not useful to pull the report. So I worked to develop a small script which was found really useful to save time and get proper report. Attached script is script which can be used to run on multiple servers at same time ( using some automated tool ) ...

download comment 11 Sep 2011

RASHED123 commented on: Custom Script: VCS configuration checker

#!/usr/bin/perl # # chkvcs # Written by Seann Herdejurgen # # This script checks for inconsistencies in a VCS configuration. # Edit the default values for your environment in the %attributes hash. # use Sys::Hostname; use strict; if ( ! -d "/opt/VRTSvcs/bin" ) { print STDERR "VCS is not installed on this system\n"; exit 1; } my (%config); my %attributes=( ...

updated download 06 Sep 2011

mikebounds posted: Relating devices reported by the Solaris sar utility to VxVM disks

It is difficult to map the devices shown in Solaris "sar -d" to VM devices as described in http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH22381 This shows from line: sd24 20 0.2 8 12273 0.0 25.3 d in "sar -d" you have to first look up "sd24" in /etc/path_to_inst to find: "/pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@3,1/sd@a,0" 24 "sd" Then you have to look up the device above in sym links in ...

updated download 03 Aug 2011

Manish Arya posted: Script to Refresh CommandCentral Storage Managed Hosts (v5.x) Explorer in Bulk

Script to refresh CommandCentral Storage Managed Hosts Explorers in bulk from Command Central Storage Management Server What is the need? - In few instances, we have seen that 5.x Command Central Storage Managed Hosts Explorers have been discovered information correctly but somehow CommandCentral Storage database did not get updated with latest information discovered ...

download comment 01 Aug 2011

AHerr commented on: Storage and Clustering Product Downloads from Symantec

Hi @lex, We have a couple options for you to try, depending on your interest. 1) You can work with your SYMC rep to get access to VMs we have hosted online. You can test what we have available to test in the beta program without having to partition your own hardware and setup a system just for this. Unfortunately, the site is internal to Symantec so you will need to work ...

download comment 20 Jul 2011

as@bs commented on: Network Performance Measurement Tool

SAS is very much helpful indeed. It helps us finding out the bottlenecks in our network and we are able to solve our NDMP backup issues which was taking more than 24 hours to finish up. 56% of packet loss has been detected in the SAS test. Recommend others to check this out too. But guys, is there a way we can take out report in PDF format ourselves with the help of generated XML ...

download comment 06 Jul 2011

Samuel Brunacini commented on: Plug-ins for Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM)

Good info!

updated event 10 May 2012

Kimberley posted: Symantec and Red Hat: Delivering Enterprise Ready Linux Solutions for Business-Critical Applications

Webcast: At your own desk Wed, 30 May, 2012 - 10:00 - 11:00 PDT Are you looking for a flexible, agile and low cost Linux solution for your data center that helps your business stay resilient even in face of unplanned down time? Red ...

updated event 18 Apr 2012

Theresa LaVeck posted: Storage and Availability Management Group Masters VIP Party at Vision

Vision Internet Lounge Tue, 08 May, 2012 - 7:30 - 9:00 PDT Coming to Vision Las Vegas? Join us as we celebrate you--our best customers--at the Storage and Availability Management Group Masters VIP Party at the “19th Hole” in the Internet ...

new event 17 Apr 2012

Kimberley posted: Confidently Virtualize Mission-critical Applications with Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware

Webcast: At your own desk Thu, 03 May, 2012 - 10:00 - 11:00 PDT Are you getting the I/O performance and availability you need from your VMware environment? Attend this webcast to learn how Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing improves VMware ESX ...

updated event 09 Feb 2012

S_D posted: Customer Webcast: Getting The Most Out of Your Windows Infrastructure

https://symantecevents.verite.com/24652/132764 Thu, 01 March, 2012 - 10:00 - 11:00 PST How do you meet uptime SLA’s as your Windows applications like Microsoft Exchange and SQL scale up? Are you are running Microsoft Windows Hyper-V in ...

updated event 08 Dec 2011

Rags Srinivasan posted: Customer Forum 2012: A Free Learning Event

Symantec World HQ, Mountain View, CA Wed, 14 March, 2012 - 8:00 PDT - Thu, 15 March, 2012 - 5:00 PDT Register now to get on the priority list This is free learning event by the engineers for the engineers! Please see the ...

updated event 23 Nov 2011

Chris Paquin posted: Atlanta Storage & High Availability User Group Meeting - December 1, 2011

Symantec, 1040 Crown Pointe Pkwy, Suite 650. Atlanta, GA 30338 Thu, 01 December, 2011 - 10:00 - 13:30 EST Join us for our next Atlanta Storage & High Availability User Group meeting on Thursday, December 1 . We have a great agenda ...

updated event 18 Oct 2011

Elspeth Magoria posted: Webcast: Getting More From Your Virtualization Investment

Online Wed, 02 November, 2011 - 10:00 - 11:00 PDT The promise of virtualization has been widely documented, and many companies have virtualized at least some part of their IT infrastructure. Most start with server virtualization. However, ...

new event 12 Oct 2011

Elspeth Magoria posted: Webcast: Bring Shadow IT into the Light and Empower Your Business Technology

Virtual Event Tue, 25 October, 2011 - 10:00 - 11:00 PDT Over the years, many business areas have built “Shadow IT” capabilities because the traditional IT department was either too slow or too bureaucratic for them to deal with. Join ...

new event 12 Oct 2011

Elspeth Magoria posted: Webcast: Bring Shadow IT into the Light and Empower Your Business Technology

updated event 04 Oct 2011

Elspeth Magoria posted: Symantec Cloud Computing Event: Gaining Confidence in the Cloud

Calgary, AB Wed, 02 November, 2011 - 8:30 - 13:30 MDT Join us for a Symantec Cloud Computing seminar to gain insights on how to address a range of real-world cloud computing issues including security, building resilient cloud ...

updated video 10 May 2012

Kimberley posted: Webcast: Confidently Virtualize Mission-critical Applications with Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware

Are you getting the I/O performance and availability you need from your VMware environment? Attend this webcast to learn how Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing improves VMware ESX performance and path management; provides reporting and visibility into storage; and reduces operator and multi-pathing hardware vendor costs. Speakers: Raissa Tona, Senior Principal Product Marketing Specialist ...

updated video 02 May 2012

Mayank Vasa posted: Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) Advanced Videos

Overview of key benefits and features in Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) Advanced Introducing Veritas Operations Manager Advanced: Maximize Storage Utilization Veritas Operations Manager Advanced - Overview Benefits of Discovering Hosts in Veritas Operaitons Manager Advanced ...

updated video 01 May 2012

CMilani posted: Veritas Operations Manager Advanced: Create Customized Reports

This video will demostrate how to create custom reports in Veritas Operations Manager Advanced. You can start with an existing report and modify it to suit your needs using the powerful and easy business intelligence tools built into the product. The report can be saved in a personal or public folder so you can easily ...

new video 16 Apr 2012

Raissa_T posted: 3 ways to confidently optimize VMware I/O throughput and protect from storage path failures

The path to confidently virtualize mission critical applications is laden with many challenges. These include I/O bottlenecks to storage arrays, lack of visibility into performance bottlenecks, high storage costs and vendor lock-in. The above demo highlights Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware - a revolutionary ...

updated video 16 Apr 2012

linghua_zhang posted: Screencast: Vxrootadm Integration in Product Installer

This video, created by the Storage and Availability Management Group Install team, demonstrates the install feature that keep a backup copy of the system which has an encapsulated and mirrored boot disk during Storage Foundation upgrade process. vxrootadm_con.mp4 ...

updated video 16 Apr 2012

Feng Yue posted: Screencast: Using the YUM utility on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems For Install

This video, created by the Storage and Availability Management Group Install team, demonstrates the feature of installing Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0 products using the YUM utility on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. yum_installation.mp4 ...

updated video 09 Apr 2012

John Dodds posted: Improve Data Governance with Symantec Data Insight

Watch how Data Insight improves data governance in an organization through data ownership identification, usage patterns and custodian management for unstructured data. data_insight.mov (Storage and Clustering, SFHA Management (VOM, ...

new video 04 Apr 2012

Jeff New posted: Veritas Operations Manager Advanced - Array Configuration

This video will demonstrate configuring arrays to be discovered by VOM Advanced. VOM-A Discovering Arrays.mp4 VOM Advanced Array Configuration Transcript.pdf (Storage and Clustering, SFHA Management (VOM, SORT), ...

new video 04 Apr 2012

Jeff New posted: Veritas Operations Manager Advanced - Virtualization Configuration

This video will demonstrate configuring VOM Advanced to discover server virtualization configurations such as VMware. VOM-A Discovering Server Virtualization.mp4 VOM Advanced Virtualization Configuration.pdf (Storage and ...

new video 30 Mar 2012

Mayank Vasa posted: Benefits of Discovering Hosts in Veritas Operations Manager Advanced

With Veritas Operations Manager Advanced, you can gain both operational efficiencies and strategic reporting by discovering all hosts in the entire datacenter. Watch this video to learn how to do impact analysis and use builtin reports. As a next step, watch the video on how to configure hosts . ...

updated idea 14 May 2012

Michael Auria posted: ability to set multiple standards for system comparisons

Create capability to define multiple standard system configurations. USE CASE Rather than defining 1 standard configuration, someone may want to define a configuration standard for server to be deployed in different departments or different roles (and be able to lable it as below). departments: Finance or Factory roles: Web Server or Database Server ...

updated idea 14 May 2012

Michael Auria posted: Risk Assesment Root mirror validity check (SORT: Solaris)

Please add to this check a verification of slice to volume so as to determine if any volumes exist without an underlying slice. When volumes exist on the root disk without an underlying slice, various problems may result including loss of those volumes during unencapsulation and failure or a root disk mirror operation. Hello Michael, Thank you for Hello Michael, Thank you for ...

updated idea 14 May 2012

Michael Simcorp posted: Abililty to name WinDataCollector CLI output report

Would like the Abililty to name WinDataCollector CLI output report. It would make it easier to find the info for the systems Report names starting with Report names starting with the first host like the unix reports would be great Hello Michael, We've received Hello Michael, We've received several comments about this capability and now have it scheduled for ...

idea comment 09 May 2012

Michael Auria commented on: SORT notifications

Please implement the SEND icon on all reports (Installation and Upgrade Checklist, System Comparison Table, etc ...)

updated idea 18 Apr 2012

bsobek posted: Monitoring of faulted ressources

Hi, some of our ressources in the cluster configuration are not critical. If this ressource fails, we do not get a monitoring message from VOM. VOM only monitores faulted servicegroups, but in this case, the servicegroup is partial online. Could you please implement a monitoring rule for faulted ressources? thanks! regards Björn (Storage and ...

updated idea 27 Mar 2012

Martin Scott posted: SORT not clear on when VRTSaslapm is updated

One of our customers is dealing with an issue with an ASL/APM update. The version of VRTSaslapm (5.1.100.000) installed with SF 5.1SP1 does not support the Hitachi VSP array; this support came with VRTSaslapm 5.1.100.300. Since the SF 5.1SP1 install this customer has installed: RP1P1HF3. The following is from our customer: How would we go about expressing our desire to have ...

updated idea 23 Mar 2012

Santhu posted: VOM - smart alerting system

Hi, Currently i dont see VOM doing any alert consolidation and reporting based on events. like when a system lost a path due to some hardware failure it reports every disk lost one path rather one single alert which should say 'host' got one failed path. And also when we had fabric failure all the hosts and its each disk thrown alerts which was in thousands.rather i would ...

idea comment 23 Mar 2012

Jeffrey Armorer 2 commented on: PowerShell cmdlets

None currently available. These will be added to a future version.

updated idea 23 Mar 2012

Alexander Kazakov posted: ACCLib too slow on big system

Early versions of our cluster had our own OeBS monitor scripts. Scripts sometimes worked not properly, that's why the customer wants to have a solution that would fully supported by vendor, have no problems with upgrade and track the resource status correctly. At the moment we see that the agents supplied by Symantec not working very well. The monitoring ...

updated idea 21 Mar 2012

dveeden posted: Better support for systems with strict security in the SORT Data Collector and installrp

If /var/tmp is mounted with noexec option then the sort data collector creates an alomost empty veritas explorer file. If /var/tmp is mounted with noexec option then installrp fails to fully install a rolling patch but reports the status as succeeded. The work-around is: ./sortdc -vxexplorer -tmppath=/root/sortdc-tmp ./installrp -tmppath=/root/installrp-tmp ...