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- VERITAS Volume Manager for SCO MPX - VERITAS Software Corp.
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- KEYWORDS: benchmarking, optimization, performance analysis, disk management, disk mirror/span/stripe/array, fault tolerant, tuning, Performance, Tuning & Benchmarks , 408
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- Virtual Disk Manager With On-line Storage Management
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- The VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) for SCO MPX is a powerful virtual
- multithreaded disk management solution which maximizes system availability,
- increases disk I/O performance, protects against data loss, and significantly
- reduces the ongoing cost of disk and file system administration. VxVM has been
- available on RISC and CISC minicomputers and workstations worldwide, is an
- integral component of the UNIX International Roadmap, and is now available for
- SCO UNIX, SCO MPX, and SCO Open Desktop
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- Without VxVM, UNIX systems require that operations and users be disrupted for
- hours while routine system administration tasks are performed. This is
- unacceptable in mission-critical or multi-user environments
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- VxVM maximizes system availability: moving the contents of part or all of one
- disk to another (to maximize I/O performance or to salvage data from a failing
- disk) can be done online, without users or applications knowing it took place.
- Adding space to an existing file system interrupts availability for a few
- minutes, not hours, as no backup/restore is needed. These operations can even
- be done remotely if no SCO system manager is on site. Adding a new disk drive
- now takes only as long as is required to physically install the unit
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- VxVM improves performance and protects against data loss: VxVM supports
- spanning, striping (RAID-O), and mirroring (RAID-1). Any of these techniques,
- in any combination, on any portion of disk, can be applied to existing file
- systems (including root/swap) or databases without interrupting users
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- VxVM runs on existing SCO UNIX system independently of disk type (ESDI, SCSI,
- etc.), bus architecture (ISA, EISA, MCA), or controller. Please refer to the
- catalog entry for VERITAS Visual Administrator for Open Desktop for details on
- the Motif, object-oriented companion product which won the 1992 Open Desktop
- ``Product of the Year'' award.
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- VERITAS Software Corp.
- Tel: (408) 727-1222
- Fax: (408) 562-4334
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