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The Veritas Volume Manager, VVM or VxVM is a proprietary

Proprietary software

Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...

logical volume manager

Logical volume management

In computer storage, logical volume management or LVM provides a method of allocating space on mass-storage devices that is more flexible than conventional partitioning schemes...

from 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...

(now part of Symantec

Symantec

Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...

). It is available for 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...

, 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, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, and 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...

. A modified version is bundled with 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...

as its built-in volume manager. It offers volume management and 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...

functionalities.

Versions

Veritas Volume Manager 5.1
- Release date (Windows): August 2008
Veritas Volume Manager 5.0
- Release date (UNIX): August 2006
- Release date (Windows): January 2007
Veritas Volume Manager 4.1
- Release date (UNIX): April 2005
- Release date (Windows): June 2004
Veritas Volume Manager 4.0
- Release date: February 2004
Veritas Volume Manager 3.5
- Release date: September 2002
Veritas Volume Manager 3.2
Veritas Volume Manager 3.1
- Release date: August 2000
Veritas Volume Manager 3.0

Litigation

In May 2006, Symantec filed a lawsuit alleging Microsoft leaked trade secrets and violated a contract

Contract

A contract is an agreement entered into by two parties or more with the intention of creating a legal obligation, which may have elements in writing. Contracts can be made orally. The remedy for breach of contract can be "damages" or compensation of money. In equity, the remedy can be specific...

over code used in Windows Vista. Microsoft once licensed a version of Veritas Volume Manager for Windows 2000

Windows 2000

Windows 2000 is a line of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, business desktops, laptops, and servers. Windows 2000 was released to manufacturing on 15 December 1999 and launched to retail on 17 February 2000. It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0, and is the...

, allowing operating systems to store and modify large amounts of data. Symantec acquired Veritas on July 2, 2005, and claimed Microsoft misused their intellectual property

Intellectual property

Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

to develop functionalities in Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft, introduced on 24 April 2003. An updated version, Windows Server 2003 R2, was released to manufacturing on 6 December 2005...

, later Windows Vista

Windows Vista

Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...

and Windows Server 2008, which competed with Veritas' Storage Foundation

Veritas Storage Foundation

Veritas Storage Foundation, previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, combines Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System to provide a complete solution for online storage management...

, according to Michael Schallop, the director of legal affairs at Symantec. A representative claims Microsoft brought all "intellectual property rights for all relevant technologies from Veritas in 2004". The lawsuit was dropped in 2008; terms were not disclosed.

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Versions

Litigation

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