VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Release Notes

New and Enhanced Features
12 VERITAS Storage Foundation Release Notes
VxVM 4.1 Licenses
The following table shows the levels of licensing in VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 and the
features supported at each level:
Note You need a Full VxVM license to make effective use of Add-on licenses to VxVM. For
example, FastResync (a FlashSnap license feature) reduces the time taken to resynchronize
volume snapshots (a Full VxVM license feature).
To see the license features that are enabled in VxVM 4.1, enter the command:
# vxdctl license
VERITAS File System
This release of VERITAS File System includes the following new features and enhancements.
Cross-platform Data Sharing
Cross-platform Data Sharing (CDS) allows data to be serially shared among heterogeneous systems
where each system has direct access to the physical devices that hold the data. This feature can be
used only in conjunction with VERITAS Volume Manager.
There are two new VxFS commands associated with this feature:
VxVM License Description of Supported Features
Base Concatenation, spanning, rootability and root disk mirroring, multiple disk groups
and
VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA).
Full Concatenation, spanning, rootability, volume resizing, multiple disk groups,
co-existence with native volume manager, striping, mirroring, DRL logging for
mirrors, striping plus mirroring, mirroring plus striping, RAID-5, RAID-5 logging,
Smartsync, hot sparing, hot-relocation, online data migration, online relayout,
volume snapshots, Intelligent Storage Provisioning, FastResync with Instant
Snapshots, Storage Expert, Device discovery Layer, multipath DMP, and VEA.
Add-on Licenses Features that augment the Full VxVM license such as FlashSnap™ (FastResync
and Dynamic Disk Group Split and Join) and clustering functionality
(cluster-shareable disk groups and shared volumes).
fscdstask
Perform various CDS operations
fscdsconv
Convert the byte order of a VxFS file system