Veritas Volume Manager 5.1 SP1 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (5900-1518, August 2011)
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Table 4 Features Enabled by HP Serviceguard Storage Management Licenses (continued)
T2777EBT2774EBFeature
YesYesThin Provisioning
YesYesDynamic Multipathing (DMP) - Balance I/O across multiple paths between the
server and the storage array to improve performance and availability,
active/passive (A/P) failover for root disk
YesYesImproved usability for I/O statistics – More visibility for I/O statics per LUN,
enclosure, and array.
YesYesALUA support
YesYesEnclosure-Based Naming – Name LUNs (array volume ID)
YesYesHot relocation – Automatically migrates data from failing disks to healthy
disks, online.
YesYesOnline Administration – Limits the amount of time storage required to be offline
for maintenance by performing volume resizing (including shrinking), domain
reconfiguration, backup, and off-host processing while the data remains online
and available (online migraiton, volume resizing, online relayout). Provides
task monitoring for VxVM tasks.
YesYesOracle SmartSync Support – Improves Oracle runtime and recovery
performance with mirrored volumes. Raw volume configuration.
YesYesOracle SmartSync Support - improves Oracle runtime and recovery
performance with mirrored volumes. File system through Oracle Disk Manager
(ODM) configuration.
YesYesPortable Data Containers (cross-platform data sharing) – Easily and quickly
converts data for use on different operating systems. Makes it easy to migrate
to new operating systems.
YesYesSite awareness / remote mirrors for campus clusters
YesYesStorage Foundation Management Server – Centralizes management of multiple
servers to provide complete visibility to application, server, and storage
resources.
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YesYesVeritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA)
YesYesStorage Expert – Script-based tool to check for unusual or non-recommended
configurations
YesYesDynamic LUN Expansion – Online LUN resize and automatic volume growth
YesYesImport Cloned LUN on the same host as the original LUN used with
ShadowCopies, BCVs, and so on.
YesYesDynamic Storage Tiering - Allows the administrator to identify and move
infrequently used files online to less expensive storage, transparently to users
and applications.
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YesYesStorage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback - Instantly create disk-based backups
or file systems without adding storage. The backup can be easily restored by
the user.
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YesYesDatabase Dynamic Storage Tiering – SF Enterprise 5.0
YesYesFlash Snap – Takes instant, full volume, or space-optimized snapshots of data
for off-host processing, disk-based recovery, and backup. Only resynchronizes
changed blocks for fast resynchronization. Online split/join of disk groups.
YesYesDatabase FlashSnap
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YesYesStorage Mapping
YesYesExtent Balanced File System
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