Veritas Storage Foundation

Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF^[1]), previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, is a computer software product made by Veritas Software that combines Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) to provide online-storage management. Symantec Corporation developed and maintained VSF until January 29, 2016, at which point Veritas and Symantec separated. The latest product version, 7.0, was re-branded as "Veritas InfoScale 7.0".

Veritas Storage Foundation provides:

• Dynamic storage tiering (DST)
• Dynamic multipathing (DMP)
• RAID support

Major releases

Veritas Storage Foundation was also packaged in bundles such as Veritas Storage Foundation Veritas Cluster Server, for databases, for Oracle RAC, and Veritas Cluster File System.

• Veritas InfoScale Enterprise 7.0, December 2015
• Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0, December 2011
• Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1, December 2009
• Veritas Storage Foundation Basic 4.x and 5.x, February 2007, free version, impose usage limits
• Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, July 2006
• Veritas Storage Foundation 4.3 (Windows-only release), August 2005
• Veritas Storage Foundation 4.2 (Windows-only release), December 2004
  • Support Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO) (only Windows 2003)
  • Includes Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR)
• Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1, May 2004
• Veritas Storage Foundation 4.0
• Veritas Foundation Suite 3.5
• Veritas Foundation Suite 3.4
• Veritas Foundation Suite 2.2

Supported OS platforms included AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux and Microsoft Windows.

See also

• Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
• Veritas File System (VxFS)
• Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT)