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John_Harkins's avatar
14 years ago

THe use of VVR on SAN or virtual NAS hardware ?

Hi All, I am now using Virtual NAS OpenFiler on my old 2U rack server and also EMC CX4-120 SAN so I wonder what would be the advantage of using this Symantec Technology ? EMC MirrorView license i...
  • mikebounds's avatar
    14 years ago

    VVR is not supported on VMWare ESX (essentially Linux). For Linux distributions, it is only supported on the following 

     

    • Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (64-bit)
    • Linux - Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, and 11 (64-bit)
    • Linux - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5

    You maybe able to use FileStore which is basically Linux with NAS, HA and replication functionality.

    Mike