Product overview

Chapter 1

This chapter includes the following topics:

■About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products

■Related products

About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products

The following sections describe the products and software components available in this Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions release.

Veritas Storage Foundation

Veritas Storage Foundation by Symantec includes Veritas File System (VxFS) and Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) with various feature levels.

Veritas File System is a high performance journaling file system that provides easy management and quick-recovery for applications. Veritas File System delivers scalable performance, continuous availability, increased I/O throughput, and structural integrity.

Veritas Volume Manager removes the physical limitations of disk storage. You can configure, share, manage, and optimize storage I/O performance online without interrupting data availability. Veritas Volume Manager also provides easy-to-use, online storage management tools to reduce downtime.

Veritas File System (VxFS) and Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) are included in all Veritas Storage Foundation products. If you have purchased a Veritas Storage Foundation product, VxFS and VxVM are installed and updated as part of that product. Do not install or update VxFS or VxVM as individual components.

Storage Foundation includes the dynamic multi-pathing functionality.