Q: What Is Storage Exec?A: VERITAS Storage Exec™ helps organizations maximize storage resources and reduce backup and restore times by providing automated storage management. Storage Exec enables real-time storage quotas for individual users, blocks non-business files such as MP3s and viruses from company servers and provides extensive, detailed storage reporting. It reduces administration through email notification that lets users clean up their own files. Q: What are the key benefits of VERITAS Storage Exec?A:§ Simple, Automated Data Management: Storage Exec is an easy-to-use, automated technology that enables administrators to manage storage resources more effectively with minimal effort. § Faster Backup Times: Storage Exec helps to ensure that only business critical data is being backed up, leading to faster, more efficient backup and recovery times. § Integration with Backup Exec: Storage Exec seamlessly integrates with Backup Exec via Backup Exec™ SmartLink. This new integration enables customers to back up or archive data from Storage Exec reports using Backup Exec. § Reclaim Wasted Storage Space: Customers can reclaim as much as 30% to 50% of their Windows storage capacity simply by removing unnecessary files that are currently wasting valuable disk space. § Reduce Storage Costs: Storage Exec helps increase the lifetime and capacity of existing storage resources while reducing the amount of IT workload dedicated to storage management. § Help Reduce Legal Exposure: Storage Exec helps ensure that illegal, copy written, and offensive materials do not end up on company servers. Q: How does VERITAS Storage Exec integrate with VERITAS Backup Exec?A:Storage Exec seamlessly integrates with Backup Exec media server by enabling users to quickly and easily back up or archive data right from a Storage Exec report. Storage Exec provides an easy-to-use wizard called Back Up With Backup Exec. This wizard guides users through the process of submitting a full backup or archive job to the Backup Exec media server. Storage Exec 5.3 will integrate with either Backup Exec 9.1 or 10.0. What are the benefits of using VERITAS Storage Exec with VERITAS Backup Exec?A:Storage Exec improves backup and recovery in several ways: § Understand which files do not need to be backed up or can be deleted from a server § Reduce backup and recovery window (faster backups/restores) § Reduced network traffic (less data going over network to backup server) § Reduced amount of data written to tape § Block unwanted file types from the server thus keeping data being backed up to only critical information. § Windows administration only needs to be performed on business related information, no private data § Limit the amount of data user can store on the server § Clear picture of the amount of data that has to be backed up each day § Environments with stand-alone tape drives can understand when they are reaching near capacity on cartridges § Reporting on files that have not been backed up § Highlight a data protection policy gap where files are not being correctly protected, since being stored in wrong place or backup policy is incorrect. Q:Does VERITAS Storage Exec support DAS, NAS and SAN?A:Yes. Storage Exec works at the file system and drive level; therefore Storage Exec can interrogate any devices that can be seen by a Windows server whether it be connected via Direct Attached Storage (DAS) or Storage Area Network (SAN) storage. Any Network Attached Storage (NAS) built on these operating systems can be managed with Storage Exec. Storage Exec Network Appliance Option works with Network Appliance filers. Q: Q: How is VERITAS Storage Exec packaged?Storage Exec currently has two editions: § Storage Exec 5.3 Server § Storage Exec 5.3 Small Business Server Add-on Options and Agents are now available to help organizations extend Storage Exec functionality to better suit their business needs. § Enterprise Administration Option § Advanced Reporting Option § Network Appliance Option § Remote Server Agent § Remote Workstation Agent (10-Pack) Q: Why is real-time enforcement of quotas and file screening important?A:Many competing products use "scan-and-dump" monitoring. These products regularly read file systems at predetermined intervals, reporting and managing files "after-the-fact". This doesn't reduce storage allocations effectively as real-time quota enforcement and file screening. This doesn't prevent out-of-space conditions that bring services and applications down. Storage Exec is the only storage management solution with patented TruStor™ real-time quota monitoring and enforcement, enabling high availability of storage resources. Storage Exec stops a file from touching the disk if that file is deemed inappropriate or would exceed the quota maximum. How can VERITAS Storage Exec help facilitate server consolidation?A: VERITAS Storage Exec typically helps customer reclaim up to 50% of utilized server disk space, drastically streamlining the amount of data to be moved as part of server consolidation projects. This reduces elapsed time and increases the probability of a successful server consolidation. . Q: Does VERITAS Storage Exec work in clustered environments?A: Yes. All versions of VERITAS Storage Exec are Microsoft cluster aware and Microsoft cluster enabled. VERITAS Storage Exec was the first independent SRM solution to receive IBM Cluster Proven certification. VERITAS Storage Exec supports both active/passive and active/active Microsoft cluster configurations. One license is required for each node in a cluster. Space allocations and policy information are stored on the shared cluster disk in a special file. Storage Exec services are installed on both nodes of the cluster and access the same special files for quota management and file screening. In the event of a failover, the cluster service on the secondary node detects the failure and issues a mount request for the shared cluster drives. Storage Exec detects this mount request and begins managing the space allocations on the drive after it comes online. More Information
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