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About VCS in a Storage Foundation VS environment

In the Storage Foundation Volume Server (Storage Foundation VS) environment, both Volume Clients (VCs) and Volume Servers (VSs) are candidates for high availability. Storage Foundation VS has two main modes that you can use:

• Share Out
• Volume Serving

Depending on whether you use Share Out or Volume Serving, different combinations of Volume Server and Volume Client clusters are available. VCS agents help ensure high availability for different mission-critical components of your SF Volume Server setup.

VCS agents help manage different resources. For Storage Foundation VS, you can use the SANVolume and DiskGroup agents.

• The SANVolume agent exists to provide management and monitoring functions for a SAN volume.
• The Disk Group agent allows you to manage and monitor your SAN disk groups on the Volume Server in the Share Out mode.