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9 years ago

InfoScale 7.0 for Windows: About the product correlation between Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions and Veritas InfoScale Family

In the 7.0 release, the following products from Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions are rebranded and repackaged under the Veritas InfoScale family.

  • Storage Foundation (SFW)

  • Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions (SFW HA)

  • Cluster Server (VCS)

  • Dynamic Multi-Pathing for Windows (DMPW)

The Veritas InfoScale family consists of the following products:

  • Veritas InfoScale Foundation

  • Veritas InfoScale Availability

  • Veritas InfoScale Storage

  • Veritas InfoScale Enterprise 

The following table depicts the existing-to-new product correlation: 

Existing product New product
SFW Basic Veritas InfoScale Foundation
VCS Veritas InfoScale Availability
SFW Veritas InfoScale Storage
SFW HA Veritas InfoScale Enterprise

As a result of repackaging the following changes apply:

  • DMPW and VBS are not available as separate products.

  • The following product options are not available as user-selectable options during the product installation.

    All these features are now available by default with the concerned InfoScale product.

    • FlashSnap

    • Replace Disk Management Snap-in with SFW VEA GUI

    • Volume Replicator (VVR)

    • Fast failover

    • Global Cluster Option

For information about the simplified product packaging, changes to the user-selectable product installation options, and the components that are offered in each InfoScale product, see:

Veritas InfoScaleâ„¢ What's New Guide

InfoScale documentation for other platforms can be found on the SORT website.

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