Veritas Volume Manager

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The Veritas Volume Manager, VVM or VxVM is a proprietary logical volume manager from Veritas (now part of Symantec). 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.

Recently, Symantec sued Microsoft over use of its technology in its Operating System products other than those licensed by Microsoft.

Symantec says Microsoft licensed a “light” version of Volume Manager from Veritas in 1996 and used it in Windows 2000. Symantec also says Microsoft later used the solution to develop Windows Server 2003. Symantec further charges that Microsoft has used the technology to develop Windows Vista and Longhorn server - [1].

[edit] Versions

• Veritas Volume Manager 5.0
• Veritas Volume Manager 4.1
• Veritas Volume Manager 4.0
• Veritas Volume Manager 3.5
• Veritas Volume Manager 3.2
• Veritas Volume Manager 3.1
  • Release date: August 2002
  • Last support date: June, 2006
  • Last Hotfix release: version 05 - March 30, 2005
• Veritas Volume Manager 3.0

[edit] See also

• Veritas Enterprise Administrator
• Veritas Storage Foundation
• Veritas Volume Replicator

[edit] External links

• Veritas Volume Manager Quickreference
• Advanced Veritas Volume Manager Quickreference
• Cuddletech Veritas Kickstart
• Symantec sues Microsoft over the use of Volume Manager by Antony Savvas, Computer Weekly, Friday 19 May 2006, Accessed Friday 09 June 2006