Veritas Foundation Suite for Solaris

Veritas Foundation Suite for Solaris ... environments. At the heart of these solutions is VERITAS Foundation Suite, which includes VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System and other value-add products. Independently, these components provide key benefits. When used together as an integrated solution and they deliver the highest possible levels of performance, availability and manageability for heterogeneous storage environments.

VERITAS Foundation Suite intrinsically allows you to increase manageability and resource utilization within complex, heterogeneous, direct-attached or networked storage environments by virtualizing physical storage devices and managing them as logical storage pools. Foundation Suite also enables centralized, cross-platform volume and file management from a single console with the VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA) GUI. Centralizing storage resources reduces training costs, immediately reduces administrative overhead and provides a scalable foundation to manage the unpredictable growth of demanding business operations.

Foundation Suite helps eliminate costly and disruptive planned and unplanned downtime. For instance, the online management capabilities of Foundation Suite allow administrative and maintenance operations that often cause planned downtime to be performed without interrupting data access. Foundation Suite substantially increases availability by reducing the time necessary to recover file systems and volumes from a system crash and reboot. Similarly, data is protected against loss and corruption caused by disk and hardware failures by using redundancy techniques to increase data availability. Higher availability of data enables you and your users to be more productive.

Foundation Suite dynamically tunes volumes and file systems so you can spend less time tuning and more time on other business critical applications. Foundation Suite provides more efficient I/O operations from the kernel because VERITAS Volume Manager and File System align to ensure optimized performance for your environment. The solution also gives you the capability to identify and remove performance bottlenecks as well as analyze storage access patterns.

VERITAS Foundation Suite provides a consistent approach to managing heterogeneous operating system and storage hardware environments. As a result, you are able to protect your current hardware investments and benefit from the freedom of choice for future purchases.