Technical Details for Veritas Volume Manager for Solaris 3.2

Veritas Volume Manager for Solaris 3.2 ... safe from the damage caused by disk failures. Traditional disk storage management is a labor-intensive process, often requiring machines to be taken offline for hours at a time-disabling user access to data and requiring tedious, manual intervention by system administrators. By creating virtual storage devices from physical disks and disk arrays, Volume Manager removes the physical limitations of disk storage so you can configure, share, and manage storage for optimal results. Volume Manager provides easy-to-use, online storage management for enterprise computing and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.

The easy-to-use interface simplifies disk administration tasks, such as adding or moving storage resources or data. Volume Manager can configure and monitor hardware RAID devices, and manage shared storage in supported clustering configurations (for example, Microsoft Cluster Server, MSCS or VERITAS Cluster Server). Volume Manager identifies storage bottlenecks and allows you to migrate data to other devices, even while applications and their data remain online and available. Use Volume Manager to balance I/O loads and to stripe data across multiple storage devices and subsystems for maximum throughput. You can use Volume Manager to protect critical applications by mirroring data across different disk devices and subsystems, including RAID devices. Because you can perform basic administrative tasks while the data is online and available, Volume Manager reduces planned downtime as well.