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Installation 292314: Installation troubleshooting and best practices for Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows   http://support.veritas.com/docs/292314 281391: Configuring Microsoft Exchange 2003 - Service Pack 2 with Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows   http://support.veritas.com/docs/281391 288662: How to install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 on one or more servers that are running Veritas Storage Foundation HA for Windows (SFW/HA)   http://support.veritas.com/docs/288662 315728: Storage Foundation 5.0 for Windows, Storage Foundation 5.0 High Availability, and Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 for Network Appliance Snapmirror terminates unexpectedly after clicking next on the license key page with no license key entered.   http://support.veritas.com/docs/315728 Disks, Volumes and Hardware 286163: How to read the Hardware Compatibility List for Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows   http://support.veritas.com/docs/286163 2...

Auto-provisioning requires Enginuity 5874 or later. It simplify Symmetrix provisioning by allowing you to create group of devices like storage group in CLARiiON, Front-End Port Group and Host Initiators Group and then associate these groups with each other in a masking view. The following are the basic steps for provisioning Symmetrix using Auto-Provisioning:- 1) Create a Storage Group 2) Create a Port Group 3) Create an Initiator Group 4) Associate the groups in a Masking View. Creating Storage Group:- It is component of Auto-Provisioning group and FAST ( Will discuss about FAST in later post), both require Enginiuity 5874. The maximum number of storage group allowed per array is 8192. A storage group can contain up to 4096 devices. A Symmetrix device can belong to more than one storage group. Note:- By default Dynamic LUN addresses will assigned to each device. If can manually assign the host LUN addresses for the device you are adding to the group by clicking Set LUN Addr...