Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) is required to access the graphical user interface (GUI) for Veritas Storage Foundation. You can use the GUI to administer disks, volumes, file systems, and database functionality on local or remote machines. This section describes the installation of VEA components.

The VEA server depot, VRTSob, is installed when you install Veritas Storage Foundation products using the installation script. The VEA server package must be installed on all nodes that are to be administered.

The VEA client depot contains the Graphical User Interface (GUI) program to administer Veritas Storage Foundation products. The VEA client may be installed on one or more of the nodes to be administered. The VEA client may also be installed on a separate system that can be used to administer Veritas Storage Foundation.