How to Check Mulitpathing in Veritias Volume Manager

Multipass-01Today while working in the Datacenter, I accidentally destroyed a fibre cable running to one of our database servers. All the databases went poof and the DBAs freaked out. After I reminded them that this was a non-production database I went about running a new fibre cable.

Tracking Down I/O Hotspots in Linux w/ Veritas

Got a heads up from a DBA today stating that one of the their database servers was running hot from an i/o perspective. So in order to troubleshoot jumped on the server and ran an iostat >iostat -d -x 5 3 Based on the output below i was able to determine which disks where the … Continue reading Tracking Down I/O Hotspots in Linux w/ Veritas

Veritas Enterprise Administrator Not Displaying Objects/Agents

Its been a while since I have done much with Veritas Storage Foundation, so I was at a bit of a loss after firing up the VEA gui on a fresh install on Centos 5.4, and not seeing any of the agents that I was used to seeing. A quick check on the command line … Continue reading Veritas Enterprise Administrator Not Displaying Objects/Agents