Whats the difference between SVM and VxVM? What would you recommend to your cl

Whats the difference between SVM and VxVM? What would you
recommend to your clients? why?

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Whats the difference between SVM and VxVM? What would you recommend to your clients? why?..

Answer / manzoor

SVM:
1. Inbuild in Solaris.
2. Only available for Solaris
3. Can't decrease online the volume size.
VxVM:
2. Third party tool.
2. Available for all popular OS (Solaris,Linux,Windows,HP-
UX,AIX etc.)
3. Can resize (increase or decrease) the volume online.

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Whats the difference between SVM and VxVM? What would you recommend to your clients? why?..

Answer / kalu

SVM is only install in solaris operating systems only and we
can't resize volume size.
VXVM is third party tool its work on multiple operating
systems we can resize the volume size. but its high cost
compare with SVM.

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