Veritas

VERITAS Software

Veritas Software Corp. was an international software company that was founded in 1983 as Tolerant Systems, renamed Veritas Software Corp. in 1989, and merged with Symantec in 2005. It was headquartered in Mountain View, California...

 Storage Foundation, previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, combines Veritas Volume Manager

Veritas Volume Manager

The Veritas Volume Manager, VVM or VxVM is a proprietary logical volume manager from Veritas . It is available for Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX. A modified version is bundled with HP-UX as its built-in volume manager...

 (VxVM) and Veritas File System

VERITAS File System

The VERITAS File System, , is an extent-based file system. It was originally developed by VERITAS Software. Through an OEM agreement, VxFS is used as the primary filesystem of the HP-UX operating system...

 (VxFS) to provide a complete solution for online storage management. It is currently developed and maintained by Symantec Corporation.

Veritas Storage Foundations provides:

• Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST)
• Dynamic Multipathing
  Dynamic Multipathing
  In computer data storage technology field, dynamic multipathing is a multipath I/O enhancement technique that balances input/output across many available paths from the computer to the storage device to improve performance and availability...
  
   (DMP)
• RAID
  RAID
  RAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit...
  
   support

Major releases

Veritas Storage Foundation is also packaged in bundles such as Veritas Storage Foundation HA

Veritas Cluster Server

Veritas Cluster Server is a High-availability cluster software, for Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows computer systems, created by Veritas Software...

, for Databases, for Oracle RAC

Oracle RAC

In database computing, Oracle Real Application Clusters — an option for the Oracle Database software produced by Oracle Corporation and introduced in 2001 with Oracle9i — provides software for clustering and high availability in Oracle database environments...

, and Cluster File System

Veritas Cluster File System

The Veritas Cluster File System, , is a cache coherent POSIX compliant shared file system built based upon VERITAS File System. It is distributed with a built-in Cluster Volume Manager and components of other VERITAS Storage Foundation products - particularly VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS File...

.

• Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1, December 2009
• Veritas Storage Foundation Basic 4.x and 5.x, February 2007, free version, impose usage limits
• Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, July 2006
• Veritas Storage Foundation 4.3 (Windows-only release), August 2005
• Veritas Storage Foundation 4.2 (Windows-only release), December 2004
  • Support Microsoft Multipath I/O
    Multipath I/O
    In computer storage, multipath I/O is a fault-tolerance and performance enhancement technique whereby there is more than one physical path between the CPU in a computer system and its mass storage devices through the buses, controllers, switches, and bridge devices connecting them.A simple example...
    
     (MPIO) (only Windows 2003)
  • Includes Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR)
• Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1, May 2004
• Veritas Storage Foundation 4.0
• Veritas Foundation Suite 3.5
• Veritas Foundation Suite 3.4
• Veritas Foundation Suite 2.2

Supported OS platforms: AIX

AIX operating system

AIX AIX AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced "a i ex" is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms...

, Solaris

Solaris Operating System

Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. It superseded their earlier SunOS in 1993. Oracle Solaris, as it is now known, has been owned by Oracle Corporation since Oracle's acquisition of Sun in January 2010....

, HP-UX

HP-UX

HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V and first released in 1984...

, Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux, assembled by the company Red Hat, was a popular Linux based operating system until its discontinuation in 2004.Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994...

, SUSE Linux and Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

.

See also

• Veritas Volume Manager
  Veritas Volume Manager
  The Veritas Volume Manager, VVM or VxVM is a proprietary logical volume manager from Veritas . It is available for Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX. A modified version is bundled with HP-UX as its built-in volume manager...
  
   (VxVM)
• Veritas File System
  VERITAS File System
  The VERITAS File System, , is an extent-based file system. It was originally developed by VERITAS Software. Through an OEM agreement, VxFS is used as the primary filesystem of the HP-UX operating system...
  
   (VxFS)
• Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)

External links

• Veritas Storage Foundation documentation
• Veritas Storage Foundation product page at Symantec
• Veritas Storage Foundation Basic product page at Symantec
• Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)