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Veritas Storage Foundation
| Veritas Storage Foundation from Symantec provides a complete tiered storage solution for heterogeneous online tier storage management. Based on the industry-leading Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System, this storage tiering solution provides a standard set of integrated tools to centrally manage explosive data growth, maximize storage hardware investments, provide data protection and adapt to changing business requirements. | Trialware Purchasing Data Sheet (PDF) |
Key Features
- Online tier storage management with heterogeneous operating system (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and AIX) support and broad set of qualified storage devices and arrays.
- Veritas Operations Manager allows centralized management of diverse applications, servers and storage.
- Dynamic multi-pathing enables I/O to be efficiently spread across multiple paths for path failure protection and fast failover.
- SmartTier, a feature of Storage Foundation, seamlessly and transparently migrates data among storage tiers – Fibre Channel, SATA, Solid State, other – based on its business value.
- Centralized management of volumes and file systems for DB2, Oracle, Sybase and MySQL databases.
- Optimize thin provisioning by migrating efficiently and non-disruptively to thin environments and then staying thin through automated tiered storage reclamation.
Key Benefits
- Increase storage tiering utilization across heterogeneous operating systems and storage arrays.
- Increase operational efficiency with comprehensive visibility and centralized management of applications, servers and storage tiers across multiple hosts.
- Enhance storage I/O path availability and performance and efficiently spread I/O across multiple paths.
- Lower storage costs, easier data lifecycle management and control over critical application performance.
- Powerful manageability, optimum performance, and continuous access to databases.
- Simplify both the management and provisioning of tier storage, while increasing storage utilization, lowering costs and improving operational efficiencies.
