Re: Veritas Volume Manager

[John Finlay <finlay@moeraki.com>]

Hi Jose,

I am assuming that this list is about linux raid and that the Veritas 
products are raid products on linux. I assume that this list is not 
restricted to discussions about free raid implementations. If I want 
marketing fluff I can get that from the Veritas site but I'm interested 
in why real people would use Veritas on linux or why not. So far it 
seems that the cons are lack of broad support for various linux kernels 
and cost (which is not on the web site) and the pro is a professional 
mature stable product. The current crop of free linux raid tools (MD and 
LVM) seem really primitive and inflexible and having experience with 
Veritas in a previous life on Solaris (where it's really expensive) I 
was wondering if the linux version was as good and whether people felt 
it was worth spending the money to get the Veritas features. Of course 
it's possible that Veritas is overkill for the seemingly limited 
capabilities and application of the current linux PC type systems and of 
course the Veritas stuff might not cover all the possible hardware 
configurations that are available for linux.

Thanks

John

Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote:

>On Wednesday, 14 May 2003, at 10:19:25 -0700,
>John Finlay wrote:
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>>Thanks for the info. My impression is that the Veritas VM has a lot more 
>>features than MD/LVM including management tools, on-line 
>>reconfiguration, etc. These seem like valuable features. What's the cost 
>>of VVM?
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>You can (and should) always go to the vendor's website and look there,
>because this list is not about Veritas products and/or marketing/sales.
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