Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF ), previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, is a

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product made by Veritas Software that combines Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) to provide online-storage management. Symantec Corporation developed and maintained VSF until January 29, 2016, at which point Veritas and Symantec separated. The latest product version, 7.0, was re-branded as "Veritas InfoScale 7.0". Veritas Storage Foundation provides: * Dynamic storage tiering (DST) *

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(DMP) *

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Veritas Storage Foundation was also packaged in bundles such as Veritas Storage Foundation Veritas Cluster Server, for

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, for Oracle RAC, and

Veritas Cluster File System 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 Foundat ...

. *Veritas InfoScale Enterprise 7.0, December 2015 *Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, December 2011 *Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1, December 2009 *Veritas Storage Foundation Basic 4.x and 5.x, February 2007, free version, impose usage limits *Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, July 2006 *Veritas Storage Foundation 4.3 (Windows-only release), August 2005 *Veritas Storage Foundation 4.2 (Windows-only release), December 2004 ** Support Microsoft

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(MPIO) (only Windows 2003) ** Includes Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) *Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1, May 2004 *Veritas Storage Foundation 4.0 *Veritas Foundation Suite 3.5 *Veritas Foundation Suite 3.4 *Veritas Foundation Suite 2.2 Supported OS platforms included AIX, Solaris,

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, SUSE Linux and Microsoft Windows.

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