The Veritas Cluster File System (or VxCFS) is a
cache coherent POSIX compliant shared file system built based upon
VERITAS File System. It is distributed with a built-in Cluster Volume Manager (VxCVM) and components of other VERITAS Storage Foundation products - particularly
VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS File System, and
VERITAS Volume Manager. It uses the underlying mechanisms of VERITAS Cluster Server to manage membership and changes in cluster state.
The shared file system is available on the following operating systems:
IBM AIX,
Solaris,
Linux
Linux ( ) is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an kernel (operating system), operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically package manager, pac ...
, and
HP-UX
HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is a proprietary software, proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system developed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise; current versions support HPE Integrity Servers, based on Intel's Itanium architect ...
. The current version of the product is version 7.4.1.
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Mode of clustering
Because of the need to maintain cluster awareness to prevent any data corruption or discrepancies in cache, the clusters are tightly coupled and communicate over
Ethernet
Ethernet ( ) is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in 198 ...
.
See also
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Veritas File System
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Veritas Volume Manager
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Veritas Cluster Server
*
Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)
References
*Product datashee
*Product overvie
*Using CFS in an RAC environmen
Disk file systems