newbie question on Veritas 1

[fluid11]

I'm a Linux admin and don't know much about Solaris. Out of curiosity, I always see Solaris jobs that require Veritas "something" (Volume Manager?). What is this exactly? I was just looking at this one product and it said that it runs on Solaris with Veritas partitions only. Can someone please explain to me what this Veritas app is used for? It seems like every Solaris box runs it.


Thanks,
ChrisP

 

[mikeclark]

Veritas is a volume manager, for setting up disk mirroring, RAID etc. Sun has their own product called DiskSuite. You can run a system without either product but you will be limited in what you can do with disk and volume management.

 

[ady2k]

If you got problem with your root system partition.
You can use volume manager to extend the root system partition. And you also can use volume manager for linux.
You can get evaluation copy volume manager for linux from veritas.
Good Luck

 

[fluid11]

This one application I saw said that it requires Solaris with a Veritas file system. This sounds like Veritas has their own file system that you format Solaris partitions with?

Is the Linux version the same as the Solaris port?

Thanks,
ChrisP

 

[jimbopalmer]

the unix file system (ufs) has some weaknesses addressesd by the veritas file system (vxfs), so it is sometimes a wiser choice. I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.