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Veritas Volume Manager

The Veritas Volume Manager is a proprietary logical volume manager from Veritas.

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Veritas Volume Manager
DeveloperVeritas
Operating systemWindows, Solaris, Linux
Typelogical volume manager
Licenseproprietary

The Veritas Volume Manager (VVM or VxVM) is a proprietary logical volume manager from Veritas (which was part of Symantec until January 2016).

Details

It is available for Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux, and HP-UX. A modified version is bundled with HP-UX as its built-in volume manager. It offers volume management and Multipath I/O functionalities (when used with Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing feature). The Veritas Volume Manager Storage Administrator (VMSA) is a GUI manager.1

Versions

  • Veritas Volume Manager 7.4.1
    • Release date (Windows): February 20192
  • Veritas Volume Manager 6.0
    • Release date (Windows): December 20113
    • Release date (UNIX): December 20114
  • Veritas Volume Manager 5.1
    • Release date (Windows): August 20083
    • Release date (UNIX): December 20094
  • Veritas Volume Manager 5.0
    • Release date (UNIX): August 20064
    • Release date (Windows): January 20073
  • Veritas Volume Manager 4.1
    • Release date (UNIX): April 20054
    • Release date (Windows): June 20043
  • Veritas Volume Manager 4.0
    • Release date: February 20044
  • Veritas Volume Manager 3.5
    • Release date: September 20024
  • Veritas Volume Manager 3.2
  • Veritas Volume Manager 3.1
    • Release date: August 20005
  • Veritas Volume Manager 3.0

Litigation

In May 2006, Symantec filed a lawsuit alleging Microsoft leaked trade secrets and violated a contract over code used in Windows Vista. In 1996, Microsoft licensed a version of Veritas Volume Manager for Windows 2000, allowing operating systems to store and modify large amounts of data.6 Symantec acquired Veritas on July 2, 2005, and claimed Microsoft misused their intellectual property to develop functionalities in Windows Server 2003, later Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, which competed with Veritas' Storage Foundation, according to Michael Schallop, the director of legal affairs at Symantec. A representative claims Microsoft bought all "intellectual property rights for all relevant technologies from Veritas in 2004".78 The lawsuit was dropped in 2008; terms were not disclosed.9

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "VERITAS Volume Manager™ 3.1.1 - Administrator's Guide" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  2. "Storage Foundation for Windows Release Details". Veritas. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  3. "Storage Foundation for Windows Release Details". Symantec. Retrieved 2009-09-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. "Storage Foundation for UNIX/Linux Release Details". Symantec. Archived from the original on June 26, 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
  5. "Volume Manager Release Details". Symantec. Archived from the original on November 25, 2007. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
  6. Williams, Christopher (2006-05-19). "Symantec moves to slap Redmond with Vista injunction". The Register. Archived from the original on 2026-01-13. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
  7. Joris Evers (2006-05-18). "Symantec sues Microsoft over storage tech". CNET News. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
  8. Antony Savvas (May 19, 2006). "Symantec sues Microsoft over the use of Volume Manager". ComputerWeekly.com. Retrieved 2007-05-22.
  9. Modine, Austin (2008-04-03). "Symantec drops Microsoft lawsuit". The Register. Archived from the original on 2026-02-08. Retrieved 2026-03-30.