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Veritas Storage Foundation

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Installation overview

Before you start the installation, read the component product release notes and installation guides:

About this product

Veritas Storage Foundation by Symantec includes Veritas File System by Symantec (VxFS) and Veritas Volume Manager by Symantec (VxVM) with varying 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 so that 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.

You add high availability functionality to Storage Foundation HA by installing Veritas Cluster Server software.


  Note   VxFS and 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 them as individual components.


Veritas Storage Foundation has the following four offerings:

Storage Foundation offerings lists the Veritas products and optionally licensed features available with each Storage Foundation version.

Storage Foundation offerings

Storage Foundation version

Products and features

Storage Foundation Standard

Veritas File System
Veritas Volume Manager

Optionally licensed features:

Veritas Volume Replicator Option

Storage Foundation Standard HA

Veritas File System
Veritas Volume Manager
Veritas Cluster Server

Optionally licensed features:

Veritas Volume Replicator Option

Storage Foundation Enterprise

Veritas File System
Veritas Volume Manager
Optionally licensed features:

Veritas Volume Replicator Option

Storage Foundation Enterprise HA

Veritas File System
Veritas Volume Manager
Veritas Cluster Server
Optionally licensed features:

Veritas Volume Replicator Option