Veritas Volume Manager Deep Dive: Ensuring Data Integrity and Resilience

Sambasiva Rao Madamanchi

VxVM, DMP, CVM, IT system

This paper presents an in-depth exploration of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), a robust and flexible storage management solution designed for enterprise environments that demand high data integrity, availability, and performance. It highlights the critical role of volume management in modern IT systems and examines VxVM’s architecture, including its core components and object model. Key functionalities such as dynamic volume configuration, redundancy through mirroring and RAID-5, snapshot strategies, and disaster recovery techniques are discussed in detail. The document also explores advanced features like Dynamic Multipathing (DMP), Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) integration for shared storage in clustered environments, and tools for monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Real-world operational scenarios such as live volume migration, disk replacement, and online expansion illustrate VxVM's resilience and agility. The paper concludes by affirming VxVM’s suitability for mission-critical workloads and recommends combining it with proactive monitoring and automation to achieve comprehensive enterprise storage resilience.

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"Veritas Volume Manager Deep Dive: Ensuring Data Integrity and Resilience", IJSDR - International Journal of Scientific Development and Research (www.IJSDR.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.4, Issue 7, page no.472-484, July-2019, Available :https://ijsdr.org/papers/IJSDR1907081.pdf

Volume 4 Issue 7, July-2019

Pages : 472-484

Paper Reg. ID: IJSDR_303901

Published Paper Id: IJSDR1907081

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Research Area: Science and Technology

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ISSN: 2455-2631 | IMPACT FACTOR: 9.15 Calculated By Google Scholar | ESTD YEAR: 2016

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