Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows 5 1 Internet software developed by Symantec Corporation. The license of this internet software is freeware, the price is free, you can free download and get a fully functional freeware version of Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows.
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Disaster recovery using Veritas Storage Foundation Enterprise HA with IBM Disk Systems 1 Abstract This paper describes how Symantec and IBM have installed, configured, and validated high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) configurations for Oracle with the IBM Storwize V7000 family and IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller systems. Product Description. Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows provides an easy-to-use solution for online heterogeneous storage management. Based on the Veritas Volume Manager, it provides a standard set of integrated tools to centrally manage explosive data growth, maximize storage hardware investments, provide data protection, and adapt to changing business requirements. VERITAS Storage Foundation Cluster File System™ lowers the costs of managing mission-critical data and disk resources in SAN environments by enabling data sharing of SAN-attached systems. At the heart of VERITAS Storage Foundation Cluster File System are VERITAS Cluster File System, a true cluster file system, and the VERITAS Cluster Volume. Software Upgrades; Policies; Connect User Community. A peer-to-peer community for Symantec business customers, partners, and employees. Join the Conversation. Support / Veritas Storage Foundation Volume Replicator Administrator's Guide. Was this article helpful? Thank you for your feedback!
Veritas Software Corp. has upgraded its Foundation Suite and ported it to Cisco Systems Inc.'s MDS 9000 SAN switch.
This builds on Veritas' existing storage utility computing products -- NetBackup, Data Lifecycle Manager, and CommandCentral Service -- by providing what Veritas calls 'a complete tool for online storage management.'
Jose Iglesias, vice president of product management at Veritas, said the upgrade 'brings our customers one step closer to adopting a utility computing environment, maximizing utilization and reducing overall costs.'
Storage Foundation 4.0 offers information lifecyle management (ILM), provisioning, and heterogeneous server file sharing services. It also increases storage network load balancing and disk utilization.
The key products within the renamed Foundation Suite are Veritas' Volume Manager and its File System. Volume Manager groups physical disks into logical pools. Veritas' File System shares files between Windows, Linux, and Unix servers using a technology called Portable Data Containers. These products compete with IBM Corp.'s SAN File System and SAN Volume Controller, from its Storage Tank group, which have also been ported to Cisco's MDS9000.
The new suite can move files between different tiers of storage based on settable usage policies, for example, from Fibre Channel disk to SATA arrays. This is similar to aspects of Storage Technology Corp.'s (StorageTek's) ILM software.
Administrators can provision new storage for applications using templates. Storage controllers can be made to spread storage network demands across multiple paths. Volume and file snapshots can be taken. The software can also backup and restore volume layouts as well as files.
Storage mapping can locate and correct for storage hotspots thus increasing performance. There is specific support for Oracle, Oracle RAC, Sybase, DB2, and Veritas' Cluster File System.
Veritas is preparing the ground for storage utility computing, either from a server or from an intelligent switch such as the MDS9000 or, we expect, Brocade's Fabric AP7420. The company is reportedly buying Ejasent Inc. to provide policy-based utility computing technology.
The storage utility field is getting busier with EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, StorageTek, and Veritas all providing software capabilities. Switch vendors such as Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Cisco, and McData Corp. are providing intelligent switch platforms as an alternative to server-based ones.
Having a storage utility provide both SAN services and file sharing between heterogeneous servers requires a file system layered on top of native O/S file systems. IBM Corp. and Veritas appear in the lead here.
Veritas Storage Foundation 4.0 is available now with prices starting at $2,495.
This story, 'Veritas builds on Storage Foundation' was originally published by Techworld.com.
Symantec / Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) is not a new product and is a well know storage solution product. In this tutorial we will guide you step by step to install Symantec / Veritas SFHA 6.1 on your Red hat Linux machine in VMware workstation.
Sometimes many new sysadmins think that it is not possible to install Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) on OS installed in VMware workstation. But that is not true. You just need all compatible hardware and software to complete your installation. This installation is good for your test lab and practice.
Hardware/Software Required for Setup
1. Laptop/Desktop with 64 bit Operating system.
2. Virtualization on base machine i.e Laptop or Desktop.
3. 64 bit Red hat Linux 6 new version.
4. Storage Foundation 6 setup from Veritas (Download trail version).
Once you have the above things you are good to install your SF/HA solution product. Make sure you have installed 2 same version Linux operating system on your VMware workstation for 2 node cluster.
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Steps to Install Symantec / Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA)
1. Put downloaded SFHA tar file to your virtual Linux operating system in /tmp folder and extract it there.
2. Now browse the extracted zip file and change directory to rhel6_x86_64/ which is setup folder for Red hat 6, 64 bit OS as shown below. Here you will find installer script, just execute that as shown.
3. After running the installer script, you will see task menu of Symantec Veritas SF/HA install program. Here you can choose “I” for installing the product.
4. Though we can directly install any of the SFHA product, but it is always better that you perform a pre-installation check. So for that you will have to choose option “P” in step 3 instead of “I”. Below shown the pre-installation check done for two nodes.
This setup will ask for which product it has to do pre-check and will also ask you node names. As we have not done the DNS setup in our fresh installed machines, so we have given IP’s instead of FQDN. IP used in this tutorial are 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.11. You can use any IP of the same network of your choice.
5. After pre-installation check. You will have to choose the product you want to install. As we are installing Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA), so we are choosing option 4.
6. Now the installer program will give you the option to install RPM’s. Just choose option 3 to install all RPM’s on both the nodes.
7. Now the installer will show RPM list which it is going to install, here press ENTER.
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After pressing enter you will see the progress of your installation and for all the successful installation it will show done. If any rpm failed to install then you will see an error.
You may also get partially done status if RPM’s installed in one node only. Check logs for that.
8. In license screen choose option 2, which enables keyless licensing and if you have license you can choose option 1. You can always modify your license details later. Check license detail with vxlicrep command.
You will also see some more options like replication and Global cluster, choose “n” for no as shown below.
After this, your installation will complete and you can use your product. This installation is for both the nodes. You don’t have to install this setup again on node2.
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