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 Basic
- Veritas Storage Foundation Software Support Center
- Veritas Storage Foundation Software Support Free
Executive Summary. The dynamic disk management functionality in Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server and in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 is based on technology licensed to Microsoft by VERITAS Software Corporation. VERITAS Volume Manager for Windows (now called VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows) provides additional dynamic disk management and replication functionality above that available.
Veritas Storage Foundation Basic
Veritas Storage Foundation provides: Rival Consoles.
- 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.
Veritas Storage Foundation Software Support Center
See also[edit]
- Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
- Veritas File System (VxFS)
- Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
External links[edit]
- Veritas Storage Foundation product page at Symantec
- Veritas Storage Foundation Basic product page at Symantec
- Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
References[edit]
- ^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. ISBN9780738441498. Retrieved 2017-09-14.
Veritas developed the Veritas File System (VxFS), which was part of the Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF).
