Veritas Storage Foundation
Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF[1]), previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, is a computer software product made by Veritas Software that combines Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) to provide online-storage management. Symantec Corporation developed and maintained VSF until January 29, 2016, at which point Veritas and Symantec separated. The latest product version, 7.0, was re-branded as "Veritas InfoScale 7.0".
Veritas Storage Foundation provides:
- Dynamic storage tiering (DST)
- Dynamic multipathing (DMP)
- RAID support
Major releases[edit]
Veritas Storage Foundation was also packaged in bundles such as Veritas Storage Foundation Veritas Cluster Server, for databases, for Oracle RAC, and Veritas Cluster File System.
- Veritas InfoScale Enterprise 7.0, December 2015
- Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, December 2011
- 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 (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 included AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and Microsoft Windows.
See also[edit]
- Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
- Veritas File System (VxFS)
- Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
References[edit]
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Westphal, Axel; Dufrasne, Bert; Gardt, Wilhelm; Jamsek, Jana; Kimmel, Peter; Morais, Flavio; Usong, Paulus; Warmuth, Alexander; Yuge, Kenta (2016). "9: Performance considerations for UNIX servers". IBM System Storage DS8000 Performance Monitoring and Tuning. IBM Redbooks. International Business Machines Corporation. p. 299. ISBN 9780738441498. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
Veritas developed the Veritas File System (VxFS), which was part of the Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF).