Symantec Corp has unveiled Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server 5.1 for Windows, a heterogeneous storage management and high availability solution providing data and application availability for Windows environments.
A key component of the Symantec Solutions for Windows portfolio, Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 High Availability for Windows introduces support for Windows Server 2008 and delivers improvements to operational effectiveness and ease of use including enhanced availability and disaster recovery, centralized storage visibility and SmartMove for efficient array migrations, said Symantec.
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 Server Core environments, now gets Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows and Veritas Cluster Server’s extended support, with support for Standard, Enterprise, and Datacenter versions across x86, x64, and IA64 platforms. This release also provides expanded support for Windows Vista, Microsoft Exchange 2007 Service Pack 1, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2007, Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007 and Blackberry Enterprise Server.
Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows offers a guided, step-by-step wizard to ensure Microsoft Exchange and other applications can be quickly recovered from a point-in-time volume copy. IT organizations can now simplify the storage management complexity of recovering consistent Exchange data to an alternate location with this new capability -- automated snapshot recovery to Exchange Recovery Storage Groups. Moreover, for organizations requiring a multi-site disaster recovery infrastructure for Exchange or other applications, Veritas Cluster Server has added support for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)/STAR.
According to Symantec, Veritas Storage Foundation Manager will support Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows and up to 3,000 hosts enabling organizations to gain insight into storage objects including volumes, storage subsystems, and storage area network paths. Complementing the storage infrastructure visibility, Veritas Cluster Server Management Console has been enhanced to dynamically discover physical and virtual (e.g., VMware) clusters across Unix, Linux and Windows in a single global operation, and dramatically simplify operations.