Veritas 5.0 Installation Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

1 Introduction
This chapter introduces the Veritas 5.0 suite of products. It also describes the features of each
product that is included within the Veritas 5.0 suite of products.
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• Product Overview
• Volume Managers Supported on HP-UX 11i v3
• Veritas Volume Manager
• File Systems Supported on HP-UX 11i v3
• Veritas File System
• Storage Management for Oracle
Product Overview
The HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite integrates HP Serviceguard with Symantec’s
Veritas Storage Foundation. This combination provides powerful database and storage
management capabilities while maintaining the mission-critical reliability that HP Serviceguard
customers have come to expect. For more information about HP Serviceguard Storage
Management Suite, see HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes,
Veritas 5.0 suite of products include Base-VxFS, Base-VxVM, OnlineJFS, VxVM-Full, Storage
Management for Oracle, and CVM. Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) is a storage management
subsystem that enables you to manage physical disks as logical devices called volumes. A volume
is a logical device that appears to a data management system as a physical disk. Veritas File
System (VxFS) is an extent based, intent logging file system that is designed for use in UNIX
environments, which require high performance and availability and deal with large volumes of
data.
Veritas Storage Management™ for Oracle® by Symantec is a solution that enables powerful
manageability, optimum performance, and continuous access to Oracle databases. Veritas Storage
Management for Oracle is built on the industry leading volume management (VxVM) and file
system (VxFS) technologies from Symantec. Veritas Storage Management for Oracle combines
the strengths of the core Veritas products with database-specific enhancements to offer unrivaled
performance, availability, and manageability for databases.
Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) is supported on some current releases of HP-UX. For more
information on CVM, see the Managing Serviceguard manual, or theVeritas Volume Manager
Administrator's Guide.
Volume Managers Supported on HP-UX 11i v3
HP-UX 11i v3 supports the following volume managers:
• HP Logical Volume Manager (HP LVM)
The HP LVM is a disk management subsystem that enables you to allocate disk space
according to the specific or projected size of your file system or raw data. For more
information on HP LVM, see HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Logical Volume Management
at http://docs.hp.com.
• Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
VxVM is a storage management subsystem that enables you to manage physical disks as
logical devices called volumes. A volume is a virtual device that appears to a data
management system as a physical disk.
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