Veritas Storage Foundation™ and High Availability Solutions 5.0.1 Getting Started Guide

scalable performance, continuous availability, increased I/O throughput, and
structural integrity.
Veritas Volume Manager removes the physical limitations of disk storage. You
can configure, share, manage, and optimize storage I/O performance online
without interrupting data availability. Veritas Volume Manager also provides
easy-to-use, online storage management tools to reduce downtime.
You add high availability functionality to Storage Foundation HA by installing
Veritas Cluster Server software.
VxFS and VxVM are included in all Veritas Storage Foundation products. If you
have purchased a Veritas Storage Foundation product, VxFS and VxVM are
installed and updated as part of that product. Do not install or update them as
individual components.
Veritas Storage Foundation has the following products:
■ Storage Foundation Standard
■ Storage Foundation Standard HA
■ Storage Foundation Enterprise
■ Storage Foundation Enterprise HA
The Veritas products table lists the optionally licensed features available with
each Storage Foundation version.
Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle
Before you install this product, complete the following tasks:
■ Read the product release notes.
■ Review the preliminary information.
■ Follow the instructions in the Storage Foundation Installation Guide.
These documents are located at the following directories in the release media.
storage_foundation/docs/sf_notes.pdf
storage_foundation/docs/sf_install.pdf
For HA installations, also refer to the following documents.
cluster_server/docs/vcs_notes.pdf
cluster_server/docs/vcs_install.pdf
Product overview
About Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability products
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