Veritas Storage Foundation

{{Short description|Computer software product}}

Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF

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| last6 = Morais

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| title = IBM System Storage DS8000 Performance Monitoring and Tuning

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| series = IBM Redbooks

| publisher = International Business Machines Corporation

| publication-date = 2016

| page = 299

| isbn = 9780738441498

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| quote = Veritas developed the Veritas File System (VxFS), which was part of the Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF).

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), previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, is a computer software product made by Veritas Software that combines Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) to provide online-storage management. Symantec Corporation developed and maintained VSF until January 29, 2016, at which point Veritas and Symantec separated. The latest product version, 7.0, was re-branded as "Veritas InfoScale 7.0".

Veritas Storage Foundation provides:

Major releases

Veritas Storage Foundation was also packaged in bundles such as Veritas Storage Foundation Veritas Cluster Server, for databases, for Oracle RAC, and Veritas Cluster File System.

  • Veritas InfoScale Enterprise 7.0, December 2015
  • Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, December 2011
  • Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1, December 2009
  • Veritas Storage Foundation Basic 4.x and 5.x, February 2007, free version, impose usage limits
  • Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, July 2006
  • Veritas Storage Foundation 4.3 (Windows-only release), August 2005
  • Veritas Storage Foundation 4.2 (Windows-only release), December 2004
  • Support Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO) (only Windows 2003)
  • Includes Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR)
  • Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1, May 2004
  • Veritas Storage Foundation 4.0
  • Veritas Foundation Suite 3.5
  • Veritas Foundation Suite 3.4
  • Veritas Foundation Suite 2.2

Supported OS platforms included AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and Microsoft Windows.

See also

References