VxVM licenses

The following table shows the levels of licensing in Veritas Volume Manager and the features supported at each level.

Table: Levels of licensing in Veritas Volume Manager and supported features describes the levels of licensing in Veritas Volume Manager and supported features.

Table: Levels of licensing in Veritas Volume Manager and supported features

VxVM License

Description of Supported Features

Full

Concatenation, spanning, rootability, volume resizing, multiple disk groups, co-existence with native volume manager, striping, mirroring, DRL logging for mirrors, striping plus mirroring, mirroring plus striping, RAID-5, RAID-5 logging, Smartsync, hot sparing, hot-relocation, online data migration, online relayout, volume snapshots, volume sets, Intelligent Storage Provisioning, FastResync with Instant Snapshots, Storage Expert, Device Discovery Layer (DDL), Dynamic Multipathing (DMP), and Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA).

Add-on Licenses

Features that augment the Full VxVM license such as clustering functionality (cluster-shareable disk groups and shared volumes) and Veritas Volume Replicator.

Note:

You need a Full VxVM license to make effective use of add-on licenses to VxVM.

To see the license features that are enabled in VxVM