I feel this is very useful post for the UNIX admins who want to give Solaris interview. You can’t escape from veritas cluster part on the interview since it is widely used clustering software on mission critical Solaris servers.Please feel free to setup VCS cluster on your laptop and practice as much as possible before […]
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Veritas volume Manager interview questions
Unix system administration is not an easy job and attending interview is an another toughest one.If its come to Solaris then you should have good knowledge in veritas products like VXVM & VCS. As far as I know that only one enterprise Unix is keep on changing from one version to another version.That is none another than […]
Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (HA) Solutions license keys ?
How can i get veritas storage foundation and High availability from Symantec ? Is it free ? No.Only Veritas Storage Foundation Basic is a free-license version of Veritas Storage Foundation . Using the basic version, you can create up to four volumes and four diskgroups and you can’t use veritas cluster service in this. But you have an option here to use […]
Veritas cluster Interview Questions-2
Veritas cluster interview questions & answers part -2 will help you to overcome from L3 level VCS interview which will be asked frequently for SME position across many organizations. Here is the Top:30 VCS interview questions for you. Please go through questions and answers. Let me know if you have any doubt by leaving comment. Adding and removing […]
veritas volume manager installation step by step guide
This post describe about installation of VXVM on Solaris node and initialization issues with vxvm after the package installation. Unlike other packages installation,we have installer available in storage foundation bundle to minimize the complex.So no need to use pkgadd commands unless until there is an issue with the installer.Here is step by step guide for vxvm installation with putty output. Environment: Operating […]
VXVM tutorial 11 – Linked Break-off snapshot
Linked break-off snapshot In this post we are going to see about Linked break-off snapshot. Unlike the full-sized instant snapshots, this volume can be set up in a different disk group from the data volume and possible to refresh the snapshot. High-level plan for backup using Linked break-off snapshot 1. Prepare the data volume for snapshot 2. Create […]
VXVM tutorial 10 – Third-mirror break-off snapshots
VXVM(VERITAS VOLUME MANAGER TRAINING) 10 OF 12 In this post, we are going to see traditional mirror break-off snapshot.To perform this snapshot ,we need free space equal to volume size on the diskgroup.It typically perform the volume mirror and it will make the new plex as snapshot volume for backup operations.High Level plan for backup of database volume using […]
VXVM Tutorial 9 – Space-optimized instant snapshot
VXVM(VERITAS VOLUME MANAGER TRAINING) 9 OF 10 In this post we are going to see Space-optimized instant snapshot.Unlike other snapshots,we no need equal volume space to generate this snapshot. Using the cache objects,we can create a instant snapshot.Depends on data changes on volume,cache objects size may varied.Ex:Volume size is increasing 100M/per hour,then you need minimum 100MB […]
VXVM Tutorial 8 – VXVM Instant Snapshots
VXVM(veritas volume manager training) 8 of 10 A snapshot is the state of a volume at a particular point in time. Veritas Volume Manager snapshot capability for taking an image of a volume at a given point in time.It provides various snapshot depends on the environments and product cost. There are three type of snapshot […]
VXVM Tutorial 7- VXDMP(Dynamic Multi Pathing)
VXVM(veritas volume manager training) 7 of 10Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing provides greater availability, reliability to SAN paths and it increase the SAN I/O using load balancing .SAN path redundancy ensured by path failover. What is multi-pathing software ?Server is connected to SAN using one or more fiber channel(FC) in […]