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Veritas Storage Foundation

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Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF[1]), 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

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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
  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ Westphal, Axel; Dufrasne, Bert; Gardt, Wilhelm; Jamsek, Jana; Kimmel, Peter; Morais, Flavio; Usong, Paulus; Warmuth, Alexander; Yuge, Kenta (2016). "9: Performance considerations for UNIX servers". IBM System Storage DS8000 Performance Monitoring and Tuning. IBM Redbooks. International Business Machines Corporation. p. 299. ISBN 9780738441498. Retrieved 2017-09-14. Veritas developed the Veritas File System (VxFS), which was part of the Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF).