Welcome to the Cluster FIle System Blog
Hello all! Welcome to the Cluster File System blog. This blog will serve as a sounding board for engineering and product management to discuss their views on cluster file systems: What are they good f...
Blog Articles
Benchmark Results show VxFS faster than ZFS
Last week Symantec published some benchmark results comparing Storage Foundations and ZFS that suggest VxFS is around 3 times faster than ZFS for workloads typical of many commercial applications. The...
Configuring online array support using Array Policy Module (APM)
Array Policy Module (APM) ===================== The APM framework was introduced in Volume Manager 4.0 release. The 4.0 release brought about a major change in DMP architecture - the introduction of A...
Sun's Comparision of VxFS and ZFS Scalability is Flawed
Some engineers at Sun promoting ZFS have been publishing comparisons between VxFS and ZFS that are rather unflattering to VxFS. You can read the most recent white papers they've published comparing ZF...
Storage Management Essentials for Business
Storage capacity requirements are growing at an explosive rate, complicating data and storage management in mission-critical and compliance-driven environments. Enterprises need to securely store more...
Device Discovery in DMP
The first basic function for a multi path (MP) driver is to identify the set of block devices that can be supported. The device discovery is generally triggered when the MP driver is loaded into the o...
Dynamic Multi Path (DMP) - Historical Perspective and Evolution
The Dynamic Multi Path (DMP) capability was first introduced in Volume Manager 2.5.7 release primarily to support A/A multi path arrays from Sun Microsystems. In those days, the early version of array...
'Hello!' from the the Storage Management Group
Welcome to the Veritas Storage Management technical blog. My name is Rob Soderbery and I run the Storage Management Group at Symantec, leading a team of engineers developing the Storage Foundation and...
