MSCS or Veritas VCS?

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MSCS or Veritas VCS?

Tommy Bollhofer

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February 15, 2008 at 7:07 am

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Good morning 🙂
Have a new DW implmentation in the works. Several individuals in infrastruture are pushing Veritas VCS (perhaps even a similar product like NSI Doubletake) over MSCS for a large DW project running MSSQL/SSIS/SSAS. Any one have an experience with this? Any one have any feature comparisons and/or supportability issues between the two?
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Tommy
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K. Brian Kelley SSC Guru Points: 114642 More actions · Answer 1

This is something that interests me as well. We use MSCS because that's what we have experience with. Have they considered Polyserve as well?

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Tommy Bollhofer SSChampion Points: 14940 More actions · Answer 2

I'm working for Symantec 🙂 So we are being pushed to "eat our own dog food" if you know what I mean 🙂 My experience has been w/ MSCS exclusively.

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Tommy Bollhofer SSChampion Points: 14940 More actions · Answer 3

Just FYI - here is a quote from a collegue of mine; MS SQL TS for FL -

"VERITAS VCS is NOT supported by Microsoft. Is you have issues; we will do a best attempt to resolve your issue and might even ask you to reproduce the issue on a server that does not have VERITAS. But bottom line....you will have to rely on VERITAS for resolution despite what the vendor says."

Guess I have my answer 🙂

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Tommy

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K. Brian Kelley SSC Guru Points: 114642 More actions · Answer 4

Yeah, that's not surprising. So far as I am aware, they only support MSCS.

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dber Mr or Mrs. 500 Points: 507 More actions · Answer 5

i'd stick with mscs. with no supportability from ms if vcs breaks, is something that will keep me up at night.