The Veritas Cluster File System (or VxCFS) is a
cache coherent POSIX compliant shared file system built based upon
VERITAS File System
The VERITAS File System (or VxFS; called JFS and OnlineJFS in HP-UX) is an extent-based file system. It was originally developed by VERITAS Software. Through an OEM agreement, VxFS is used as the primary filesystem of the HP-UX operating syste ...
. It is distributed with a built-in Cluster Volume Manager (VxCVM) and components of other VERITAS Storage Foundation products - particularly
VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS File System, and
VERITAS Volume Manager. It uses the underlying mechanisms of VERITAS Cluster Server to manage membership and changes in cluster state.
The shared file system is available on the following operating systems:
IBM AIX
AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced , "ay-eye-ex") is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.
Background
Originally released for the IBM RT PC RISC w ...
,
Solaris,
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which i ...
, and
HP-UX
HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on Unix System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984. Current versions support HPE Integrit ...
. The current version of the product is version 7.4.1.
Mode of clustering
Because of the need to maintain cluster awareness to prevent any data corruption or discrepancies in cache, the clusters are tightly coupled and communicate over
Ethernet
Ethernet () is a family of wired computer networking technologies commonly used in local area networks (LAN), metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WAN). It was commercially introduced in 1980 and first standardized in ...
.
See also
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Veritas File System
The VERITAS File System (or VxFS; called JFS and OnlineJFS in HP-UX) is an extent-based file system. It was originally developed by VERITAS Software. Through an OEM agreement, VxFS is used as the primary filesystem of the HP-UX operating syste ...
*
Veritas Volume Manager
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Veritas Cluster Server
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Symantec Operations Readiness Tools
On March 15, 2011, Symantec released Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT), an updated version of Veritas Operations Services (VOS).
SORT (formerly VOS) is a web-based suite of services introduced by Symantec Corporation in 2008 that supp ...
(SORT)
References
*Product datashee
*Product overvie
*Using CFS in an RAC environmen
External links
Veritas Cluster File System documentation{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915090615/https://sort.symantec.com/documents , date=2015-09-15
Symantec Operations Readiness Tools(SORT)
Disk file systems