Veritas Storage Foundation

Veritas Storage Foundation, previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, combines Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) to provide a complete solution for online storage management. It was developed and maintained by Symantec Corporation until January 29, 2016, at which point Veritas and Symantec separated. The latest product version 7.0 has been re-branded Veritas InfoScale 7.0.

Veritas Storage Foundations provides:

• Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST)
• Dynamic Multipathing (DMP)
• RAID support

Major releases

Veritas Storage Foundation is also packaged in bundles such as Veritas Storage Foundation HA, for Databases, for Oracle RAC, and 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: AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and Windows.

See also

• Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
• Veritas File System (VxFS)
• Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)

External links

• Veritas Storage Foundation documentation
• Veritas Storage Foundation product page at Symantec
• Veritas Storage Foundation Basic product page at Symantec
• Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)