Veritas Storage Foundation

Veritas Storage Foundation, previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, combines Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File 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 (DMP)
• RAID support

Major releases

Veritas Storage Foundation is also packaged in bundles such as Veritas Storage Foundation HA, for Databases, for Oracle RAC, and Cluster File System.

• 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 (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, Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and Windows.

See also

• Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
• Veritas File System (VxFS)
• Veritas Enterprise Administrator
• Veritas Storage Replicator

External links

• Veritas Storage Foundation Documentation
• Veritas Storage Foundation product page at Symantec
• Veritas Installation Assessment Service (formerly PREP Utility)