[Veritas-vx] Stability of Veritas 5.1/6.0 compared to 5.0MP3

Hello, we have been using SFORA 5.0MP3 for quite long time. Since there is 5.1 and 6.0 for some time we are considering upgrade. Can anybody share his/her experience about stability of 5.1 and 6.0 compared to 5.0 (MP3) ? The stability is the most important for us and that is what concernes us.

Re: [Veritas-vx] Stability of Veritas 5.1/6.0 compared to 5.0MP3

Hello, I have forgotten technical detail: this is SFORA 5.0MP3 for Sparc Solaris. Hello, we have been using SFORA 5.0MP3 for quite long time. Since there is 5.1 and 6.0 for some time we are considering upgrade. Can anybody share his/her experience about stability of 5.1 and 6.0 compared

[Veritas-vx] What's new in 6.0 ?

Hello, does anybody know what new features are in the just released 6.0 of Veritas/Symantec stack ? Best regards Przemek -- Nudzisz sie w pracy? Zagraj http://linkint.pl/f2a65 ___

Re: [Veritas-vx] 5.0 - 5.1 - worth it ?

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:49:09AM +0800, Thomas Graham wrote: If it is not broken it does not need fixing --- well said I absolutely agree :-) But there some info I had read before about changes in ODM (5.1) and I cannot find the presentation about it. In general I am always ineterested in

[Veritas-vx] 5.0 - 5.1 - worth it ?

Hello, we have been using 5.0MP3 SFORA (with ODM) for Solaris Sparc for quite a while. 5.1 is available for quite long. Do you recommend upgrade to 5.1 ? Any features we get by getting 5.1 ? Is there any white paper about changes (internals ?) ? And how about stability ? Regards Przemyslaw Bak

[Veritas-vx] EMC AX4 VX DMP

Hello, does anybody know if Veritas DMP supports EMC AX4 ? Regards Przemek Swiateczne tapety na telefon! Pobierz http://linkint.pl/f2882 ___ Veritas-vx maillist -

Re: [Veritas-vx] Checkpoints

On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 02:12:04PM -0700, Brett Monroe wrote: Hey all, Is there a good mechanism to check the status of a fsckpt_restore? I am working on a script and need to know when I can run a fsckptadm rename on a checkpoint after the restore is complete so I need to wait the arbitrary

Re: [Veritas-vx] Checkpoints

Brett, I have asked because we did several rollbacks and even we had a lot of changes the rollback (restore) took a few seconds. It always was amazing fast. What is more as far as I remember restore doesn't give you prompt until it is finished. Am I right ? Regards Przemek Użytkownik Brett

Re: [Veritas-vx] Relayout volume from 2 to 4 columns

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 01:09:53PM -0500, Hudes, Dana wrote: So indeed this feature turns your $$$ Hitachi 9990V into a JBOD. No, it is not true. This approach just doesn't allow to treat hardware array as a magic box which can do everything. Wow. I guess there are products that need this

[Veritas-vx] Relayout volume from 2 to 4 columns

Hello, we are using VSF 5.0 MP3 on Solaris 10 attached to SAN-based hardware array. On this array we have created 2 raid groups and on each RG we have created a few LUNs: raid group: RG1RG2 LUN1 LUN7 LUN2 LUN8 LUN3 LUN9 LUN4

Re: [Veritas-vx] VxVM vxdctl ERROR V-5-1-0 Data Corruption Protection Activated - problem

Sorry, I have forgotten: this is Solaris 10 + Veritas 5 MP3. # vxdiskconfig VxVM INFO V-5-2-1401 This command may take a few minutes to complete execution Executing Solaris command: devfsadm (part 1 of 2) at 09:22:26 CET Executing VxVM command: vxdctl enable (part 2 of 2) at 09:22:31 CET

Re: [Veritas-vx] VxVM vxdctl ERROR V-5-1-0 Data CorruptionProtection Activated - problem

# cfgadm -c configure c2 # cfgadm -c configure c5 # cfgadm -c configure c9 # devfsadm -Cv devfsadm[2968]: verbose: SUNW_port_link: port monitor ttymon0 added devfsadm[2968]: verbose: SUNW_port_link: /dev/term/0 added to sacadm devfsadm[2968]: verbose: SUNW_port_link: /dev/term/1 added to sacadm

Re: [Veritas-vx] VxVM vxdctl ERROR V-5-1-0 Data Corruption Protection Activated - problem

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:41:40PM +0100, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: Hello, I am trying to add to a server new LUNs but face the following problem: server:/root# vxdctl enable VxVM vxdctl ERROR V-5-1-0 Data Corruption Protection Activated - User Corrective Action Needed VxVM vxdctl

Re: [Veritas-vx] Veritas Clustered FS experience (RedHat GFS vs. VCFS)

On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 10:46:59PM +0400, Pavel A Tsvetkov wrote: FONT face=Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif size=2DIVBRDIVIt depends upon application type of ios.nbsp;For samplenbsp;VxFS is using ODM extension for Oracle ios. Veritas ODM is free now in version 5. VxFS

Re: [Veritas-vx] Veritas Clustered FS experience (RedHat GFS vs. VCFS)

Any announcement/description about it and its licensing ? On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:22:41PM +0300, Bahadir Kiziltan wrote: The ODM is also provided with SF Standard since 5.0MP3. Veritas ODM is free now in version 5 ? I thouth that to get ODM you have to buy Veritas Enterprise . Am I wrong

[Veritas-vx] ODM vs non-ODM performance

Hi all, we are evaluating ODM (Solaris 10 + VSF 5.0 MP3). Our DBA did several tests (with and without ODM). The test runs special benchmark (hammerora) modified for our needs. It turned outs that during this test (without ODM) we achive about 380 000 TPM (but we need a lot of redo log space to

[Veritas-vx] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: SFORA + checkpoints]

Any help ? Any response ? Any comments ? Regards Przemyslaw Bak (przemol) -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ -- Zobacz najlepsze oferty nieruchomosci! Sprawdz http://link.interia.pl/f1f46 ---BeginMessage---

Re: [Veritas-vx] SFORA + checkpoints

Hello again, I came back to the problem and found it quite difficult to solve. The problem I faced is that SUNW_PKG_THISZONE parameter for VRTSdbed package is set to true: bash-3.00# grep SUNW_PKG_THISZONE /var/sadm/pkg/VRTSdbed/save/pspool/VRTSdbed/pkginfo SUNW_PKG_THISZONE=true This parameter

Re: [Veritas-vx] storage checkpoints - quota

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 03:57:38PM -0700, Scott Kaiser wrote: Hi Przemyslaw, Have you looked at the existing quotas? Yes, I have. http://sfdoccentral.symantec.com/sf/5.0/solaris/manpages/vxfs/fsckptadm_ 1m.html#429951 The -r option doesn't delete any checkpoints, it just makes each

Re: [Veritas-vx] storage checkpoints - quota

Hi Scott, I am not quite sure if I understand softlimit/hardlimit concept in storagecheckpoints. According to manual: If a hard limit is exceeded, all further allocations on any of the Storage Checkpoints fail, but existing Storage Checkpoints are preserved. Without the -f option, one or

[Veritas-vx] storage checkpoints - quota

Hello, we are evaluating storage checkpoints. Currently we are testing how does it cope with full filesystem. The '-r' option is really usefull (since it removes the oldest storage checkpoint when there is no space) but I miss very much an option which will remove such sckpt when e.g. filesystem

Re: [Veritas-vx] Usage of snapshot and checkpoint.

Again, look for document Using local copy services. It will answer your questions. Regards przemol -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:27:17PM +0530, Amit Chaurasia wrote: Thanks Scott. Checkpoint seems to provide every functionality that snapshot provides except

Re: [Veritas-vx] Usage of snapshot and checkpoint.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:14:02PM +0530, Amit Chaurasia wrote: Hi Folks, I am a bit confused over Storage Checkpoint and Snapshot. Which one should one use over other ? In what scenarios are does checkpoint scores over snapshot and vice versa. Any leads to any document or reference is

Re: [Veritas-vx] SFORA + checkpoints

Thank you Scott :-) Somehow it escaped my notice. However how to deal with it in zones (Solaris 10) environment ? When I configure local zone I can decide whether to inherit /opt from global zone. If so I cannot change owner of the directory within zone. Regards przemol --

[Veritas-vx] SFORA + checkpoints

Hello, we are evaluating SFORA (enterprise edition for Solaris 10) and faced the following problem. While trying to create storage checkpoints the manual of dbed_ckptcreate says: [...] NOTES dbed_ckptcreate must be run as the Oracle DBA user. The superuser cannot create Storage

[Veritas-vx] storage checkpoint - recommended ways to dump to tape

Hello, we are testing Solaris 10 + Veritas Storage Checkpoints. There is written in docs that vxdump/vxrestore doesn't work with Storage Checkpoints. Is tar the only way to dump (mounted) Storage Checkpoint to tape ? Regards przemol -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/

Re: [Veritas-vx] Oracle temporary tablespace on VxFS (direct mounted)

Is there anyone with internal knowledge of VxFS who can answer the question ? Regards przemol -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 08:40:52AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have read the following url: http://www.forsythesunsolutions.com/node/34 Jarod says

Re: [Veritas-vx] Enclosure-based naming and wrong order

Thank you Thomas for such precise information. I miss a lot this kind of information. It clarifies the naming scheme and ... convinced me to stick with OS based naming. :-) Regards przemol -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:54:43PM -0700, Thomas Cornely wrote: Hi All,

Re: [Veritas-vx] Enclosure-based naming and wrong order

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:16:03AM -0700, Thomas Cornely wrote: ... convinced me to stick with OS based naming. :-) Until the next 5.0 MP I hope... ;-) Well, who knows ? If all the features/changes are going to work according to design ... ;-) Regards przemol --

[Veritas-vx] Enclosure-based naming and wrong order

Hi, I have problem with disk names ordering. When I set operating system-based naming: bash-3.00# vxddladm set namingscheme=osn bash-3.00# vxdisk -e list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUPSTATUS OS_NATIVE_NAME [...] c2t50060E80102C6DC2d1s2 auto - -

Re: [Veritas-vx] Problem with vxdump in 5.0MP1

Any suggestion ? Maybe Veritas/Symantec employees has any suggestion ? Is it some bug ? Regards przemol On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:21:51PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We are using Solaris 10 + 5.0MP1. While trying to dump to tape I have: bash-3.00# mt -f /dev/rmt/2 status HP

[Veritas-vx] Problem with vxdump in 5.0MP1

Hi all, We are using Solaris 10 + 5.0MP1. While trying to dump to tape I have: bash-3.00# mt -f /dev/rmt/2 status HP Ultrium LTO 3 tape drive: sense key(0x0)= No Additional Sense residual= 0 retries= 0 file no= 1 block no= 0 bash-3.00# df -h /vxfs/sowa-romeo-vol Filesystem

[Veritas-vx] Storage checkpoints - tuning

Hello, we have Sparc server + Solaris 10 + VxVM/VxFS 4.1(+MP2) + hardware array. I have been doing some performance tests of different configurations of the array (RAID10 vs RAID5) + storage checkpoints. The tests are done with 'vdbench' - SUN's internal tool which is able to generate requested

[Veritas-vx] Where are the files ?

Hello, we have Sparc/Solaris 10 + VSF 4.1 + hardware array and one concatenated volume: drozd:/root# vxprint -htg drozd-whiskey2-dg DG NAME NCONFIG NLOG MINORS GROUP-ID ST NAME STATEDM_CNT SPARE_CNT APPVOL_CNT DM NAME DEVICE TYPE

[Veritas-vx] Time of snapshot creation

Hello, we are using VxFS snapshots: /usr/sbin/mount -F vxfs -o snapof ... Having such snapshot how can I check what time was it created ? Regards przemol -- http://przemol.blogspot.com/ -- To takie proste - użyj

Re: [Veritas-vx] Veritas File System

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 09:21:54AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , Could any one advise me, what are parameters should recommended for oracle DB VxFs filesystems in order to achieve best performance? I asked similar question last year. Look into archive:

[Veritas-vx] Storage Foundation Basic CFS

Hello, does anybody know if I can use Veritas/Symantec Cluster File System having already Storage Foundation Basic ? Are they supported in such configuration ? Regards przemol -- PS. http://link.interia.pl/f19a6

Re: [Veritas-vx] Recommended mount options for VxFS

Hello Par, Thank you very, very much for such comprehensive answer. We are using mincache and convosync as direct but didn't consider log mode and logsize. I need to be more familiar with them. Thanks again Par :-) Regards przemol On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:26:10AM -0800, Par Botes wrote:

Re: [Veritas-vx] Recommended mount options for VxFS

Hello Rodrick, I can't imagine working on server optimalization without our DBAs :-) This is step I have done before and now I am asking for you experience regarding vxfs mount options. Regards przemol On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:26:00AM -0400, Brown, Rodrick R wrote: You should really work

[Veritas-vx] Recommended mount options for VxFS

Hi all, can you share some information what options (convosync,mincache, other) you use mounting VxFS for Oracle database ? Do you treat the same redo logs, database files and archive logs or mount it with different options ? Regards przemol