Author Archives: Mariusz

About Mariusz

Architect (~ 15 years experience based on passion...) with strong background as a System Administrator and Engineer. Focused on Data Center Solutions: Virtualization/Cloud Computing and Storage/Backup Systems. Currently living in Poland.

What's new in Veritas NetBackup 7.7.3?

Veritas released the next version of NetBackup - 7.7.3. There are some features and enhancements as follows: Bare Metal Restore (BMR) support improvements: Oracle Linux 7.2 (x86-64),  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP4 (x86-64), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.2 (x86-64) General Parallel File System (GPFS) 4.1.1 support on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)… Read More »

vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) and partially connected datastores?

vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC) is a certified (you should always check/verify compatibility on VMware Storage Compatibility Guide) configuration for stretched storage (synchronized replication) cluster architectures. As I already described, there are possible two vMSC configurations based on how the hosts are connected to the storage arrays. The below figure presents uniform host access configuration… Read More »