Veritas Volume Manager

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.

In 2006, Symantec sued Microsoft over their use of Veritas technology in operating system products other than those previously agreed to. According to Computer Weekly,

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. [cite web
url = http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/19/216028/Symantec+sues+Microsoft+over+the+use+of+Volume+Manager.htm
title = Symantec sues Microsoft over the use of Volume Manager
accessdate = 2007-05-22
author = Antony Savvas
date= May 19, 2006
work = ComputerWeekly.com]

The lawsuit was dropped in 2008; terms were not disclosed.

Versions

* Veritas Volume Manager 5.0
** Release date: July 2006
* Veritas Volume Manager 4.1
** Release date: March 2005
* Veritas Volume Manager 4.0
** Release date: February 2004
* Veritas Volume Manager 3.5
** Release date: August 2002
* 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

ee also

* Veritas Enterprise Administrator
* Veritas Storage Foundation
* Veritas Volume Replicator

References

External links

* [http://sfdoccentral.symantec.com/index.html Veritas Volume Manager Documentation]
* [http://eval.veritas.com/downloads/van/vm_quickref.pdf Veritas Volume Manager Quickreference]
* [http://eval.veritas.com/downloads/van/avm_quickref.pdf Advanced Veritas Volume Manager Quickreference]
* [http://vias.symantec.com Veritas Installation Assessment Service (formerly PREP Utility)]
* [http://www.cuddletech.com/veritas/ Cuddletech Veritas Kickstart]
* [http://www.unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/index.html]