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Veritas Storage Foundation Basic

Veritas Storage Foundation Basic by Symantec (SF Basic) is a special offering that is available on a separate Storage Foundation Basic disc or downloadable from the Symantec website. SF Basic is not part of the Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions product suite. For complete information on ordering this product, licensing, and technical support, visit:

www.symantec.com/enterprise/sfbasic

You can use SF Basic with Veritas Storage Foundation Management Server to set up a centrally managed host to monitor, visualize, and manage storage resources across multiple installations. SF Management Server is a separately available product. For information on ordering SF Management Server, visit the following Symantec website:

www.symantec.com/enterprise/sfms

About this product

Storage Foundation Basic supports all Storage Foundation Standard features, however, there are deployment, licensing, and technical support limitations.

Limited deployment

SF Basic deployment is limited to the following configurations:

• Maximum four VxVM volumes per physical server (excluding system volumes required for booting root disks)
• Maximum four VxFS file systems per physical server (excluding root file systems)
• Maximum server capacity of two CPU sockets

Licensing

SF Basic includes a limited-use license. Customers must comply with the terms stated in the End-User License Agreement.

Technical support

Technical support is self-service only, available from the Veritas Support website. You can purchase additional support corresponding to the terms of the Storage Foundation Basic license. To access the self-service knowledge base, go to:

http://support.veritas.com

When contacting Support with questions relating to Storage Foundation Basic, be prepared to provide your product license key. You can determine your currently installed license by running the Veritas license report utility as shown in the following example:

# vxlicrep

....

License Key = WXYZ-9999-WXY7-WXYZ-WXYZ-WX3

Product Name = Veritas Storage Foundation Basic

Installation overview

The Veritas Storage Foundation software is on the Veritas Storage Foundation Basic disc. You cannot install SF Basic if another Veritas Storage Foundation product is installed unless that product is first removed from the system.

Read the Storage Foundation Installation Guide guide on the Storage Foundation Basic disc before starting the installation:

distribution/storage_foundation/docs/sf_install.pdf

Upgrade paths

Storage Foundation Basic provides the following upgrade paths:

• Upgrade from SF Basic to Storage Foundation Standard or Storage Foundation Enterprise simply by installing the appropriate license key.
• Upgrade from SF Basic to Storage Foundation Enterprise plus Veritas Volume Replicator by installing the appropriate license keys and products.
• Upgrade from SF Basic to any other Storage Foundation product by uninstalling SF Basic and installing the newly licensed product (see Installation methods).

To determine the release level of any Storage Foundation product installed on your system, run the vxlicrep command.

See the Storage Foundation Installation Guide for more information on upgrades.