Veritas Volume Manager
{{Short description|Logical volume manager}}
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The Veritas Volume Manager (VVM or VxVM) is a proprietary logical volume manager from Veritas (which was part of Symantec until January 2016).
Details
It is available for Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX. A modified version is bundled with HP-UX as its built-in volume manager. It offers volume management and Multipath I/O functionalities (when used with Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing feature). The Veritas Volume Manager Storage Administrator (VMSA) is a GUI manager.{{cite web| url=https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19896-01/875-3115-10/875-3115-10.pdf | title= VERITAS Volume Manager™ 3.1.1 - Administrator’s Guide | access-date=2024-01-04}}
Versions
- Veritas Volume Manager 7.4.1
- Release date (Windows): February 2019{{cite web
|url = https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc/109772639-109772648-0/wxrt-tot_v61341502-109772648
|title = Storage Foundation for Windows Release Details
|access-date = 2019-03-19
|publisher = Veritas}}
- Veritas Volume Manager 6.0
- Release date (Windows): December 2011{{cite web
|url = http://www.symantec.com/business/support/release_details.jsp?pid=15227
|archive-url = https://archive.today/20130203211435/http://www.symantec.com/business/support/release_details.jsp?pid=15227
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = February 3, 2013
|title = Storage Foundation for Windows Release Details
|access-date = 2009-09-08
|publisher = Symantec}}
- Release date (UNIX): December 2011{{cite web
|url = http://www.symantec.com/business/support/release_details.jsp?pid=15107
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090626113027/http://www.symantec.com/business/support/release_details.jsp?pid=15107
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = June 26, 2009
|title = Storage Foundation for UNIX/Linux Release Details
|access-date = 2009-09-08
|publisher = Symantec}}
- Veritas Volume Manager 5.1
- Release date (Windows): August 2008
- Release date (UNIX): December 2009
- Veritas Volume Manager 5.0
- Release date (UNIX): August 2006
- Release date (Windows): January 2007
- Veritas Volume Manager 4.1
- Release date (UNIX): April 2005
- Release date (Windows): June 2004
- Veritas Volume Manager 4.0
- Release date: February 2004
- Veritas Volume Manager 3.5
- Release date: September 2002
- Veritas Volume Manager 3.2
- Veritas Volume Manager 3.1
- Release date: August 2000{{cite web
|url = http://www.symantec.com/business/support/release_details.jsp?pid=15273
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071125161447/http://www.symantec.com/business/support/release_details.jsp?pid=15273
|url-status = dead
|archive-date = November 25, 2007
|title = Volume Manager Release Details
|access-date = 2009-09-08
|publisher = Symantec}}
- Veritas Volume Manager 3.0
Microsoft once licensed a version of Veritas Volume Manager for Windows 2000, allowing operating systems to store and modify large amounts of data. Symantec acquired Veritas on July 2, 2005, and claimed Microsoft misused their intellectual property to develop functionalities in Windows Server 2003, later Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which competed with Veritas' Storage Foundation, according to Michael Schallop, the director of legal affairs at Symantec. A representative claims Microsoft bought all "intellectual property rights for all relevant technologies from Veritas in 2004".{{cite news
|url = http://news.cnet.com/Symantec-sues-Microsoft-over-storage-tech/2100-1014_3-6074055.html
|title = Symantec sues Microsoft over storage tech
|date = 2006-05-18
|author = Joris Evers
|access-date = 2009-09-08
|publisher = CNET News}}{{cite web
|url = http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/19/216028/Symantec+sues+Microsoft+over+the+use+of+Volume+Manager.htm
|title = Symantec sues Microsoft over the use of Volume Manager
|access-date = 2007-05-22
|author = Antony Savvas
|date= May 19, 2006
|work = ComputerWeekly.com
}} The lawsuit was dropped in 2008; terms were not disclosed.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
See also
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