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danand
Level 3
13 years ago

What is the advantage of Installing VSF for Windows on a virtual machine.

Hi , Can someone pls tell me what advantage I will be getting If I install VSF for Windows on a virtual machine running Windows 2008. Just curious to know. Thanks in Advantage. ...
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  • joseph_dangelo's avatar
    joseph_dangelo
    13 years ago

    Although this document is focused on UNIX & Linux, there is significant parity between the two platforms     -benefits wise- under a VMware/Virtual Machine context.  That being said, if you are considering other VM technologies such as Hyper-V, the SFW support with 6.0 is substantial.  You will need to ignore any reference to VxFS, CFS or CDS as those are UNIX Specific technologies.  The main tenets for the most part however are platform agnostic.

    Data Mirroring with Site Awareness

    Non Disruptive Array Migrations

    VVR and FlashSnap Options (As Wally Mentioned Above)

    Consistent Storage Management across all platforms with VOM (Veritas Operation Manager)

    RDM or in-guest MS iSCSI Initiator support.

    Hope this helps,

    Joe D 

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joseph_dangelo
Level 6
13 years ago

Although this document is focused on UNIX & Linux, there is significant parity between the two platforms     -benefits wise- under a VMware/Virtual Machine context.  That being said, if you are considering other VM technologies such as Hyper-V, the SFW support with 6.0 is substantial.  You will need to ignore any reference to VxFS, CFS or CDS as those are UNIX Specific technologies.  The main tenets for the most part however are platform agnostic.

Data Mirroring with Site Awareness

Non Disruptive Array Migrations

VVR and FlashSnap Options (As Wally Mentioned Above)

Consistent Storage Management across all platforms with VOM (Veritas Operation Manager)

RDM or in-guest MS iSCSI Initiator support.

Hope this helps,

Joe D