About performing Volume Replicator operations in the VEA console

This chapter explains how you can get started with using the VEA to perform the Volume Replicator operations and also how you can manage the Volume Replicator objects.

The VEA console is a Java-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) that consists of a server and a client. The server runs on a host that runs SFW and Volume Replicator. Volume Replicator is integrated with Storage Foundation and it provides its graphical user interface through VEA. This graphical user interface enables you to configure, monitor, and administer Volume Replicator in a distributed environment, that is, if you perform a task on an RDS or RVG, the task is performed on all the hosts in that RDS. You can thus use VEA to manage Volume Replicator objects on multiple hosts.

Using the VEA console, you can remotely administer and monitor products using its framework. Volume Replicator extends this remote administration feature for administering an entire RDS spanned across multiple hosts.

Volume Replicator provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI), a WebGUI interface as well a command line interface to perform Volume Replicator operations. The graphical user interface for Volume Replicator is provided through Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA).