Archive for the 'Storage' Category

The Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA), defined virtualization as:

The act of abstracting, hiding, or isolating the internal function of a storage (sub) system or service from applications, compute servers or general network resources for the purpose of enabling application and network independent management of storage or data.
The application of virtualization to storage services or devices [...]

Step by Rakesh Khandelwal:
First check release notes to make sure H/W and O/S you are about to use is supported or not. Release Notes for UNIX and Windows (http://support.veritas.com/docs/279259 )
Symantec’s Upgrade Guide, Version “B” ( http://support.veritas.com/docs/285590 )
Assuming you have already checked databse consistency and resolved any known or preexisting consistency issues or catalog inconsistencies
Step 1 [...]

A. FC (Fibre Channel)
The National Commite for Information Technology Standart, standar that defines an ultra-high Speed, content independent, multilevel data transmission interfaces that support multiple protocol simultanously, fibre.
Channel support connectivity to million of devices over copper and/or fibre optic physical media and provide the best characteristic of both network and channel over driver topologies.
B. ESCON [...]