Veritas Volume Manager
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) is enterprise-grade storage management software that abstracts physical disk storage into logical volumes, providing administrators with a flexible and robust way to manage storage. It enables dynamic disk partitioning, data striping, mirroring for redundancy (RAID…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 1991
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Veritas Volume Manager solved the critical problems of inflexible physical disk management, limited data protection options, and the difficulty of scaling storage without incurring application downtime in enterprise environments. Before VxVM, administrators were largely constrained by the physical layout and size of disk drives, making operations like adding storage, mirroring data for fault tolerance, or migrating data cumbersome, risky, and disruptive.
- Platforms
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), IBM AIX, Windows Server
Related technologies
Notable users
- Financial Institutions (e.g., banks, trading firms)
- Large Enterprises with mission-critical databases
- Healthcare Organizations
- Telecommunications Companies
- Government Agencies