Veritas InfoScale™ Virtualization Guide - Linux on ESXi
- Section I. Overview
- About Veritas InfoScale solutions in a VMware environment
- Section II. Deploying Veritas InfoScale products in a VMware environment
- Getting started
- Understanding Storage Configuration
- Section III. Use cases for Veritas InfoScale product components in a VMware environment
- Application availability using Cluster Server
- Multi-tier business service support
- Improving storage visibility, availability, and I/O performance using Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- How DMP works
- Improving data protection, storage optimization, data migration, and database performance
- Protecting data with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Optimizing storage with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Migrating data with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Improving database performance with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Setting up virtual machines for fast failover using Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability on VMware disks
- About setting up Storage Foundation Cluster File High System High Availability on VMware ESXi
- Configuring coordination point (CP) servers
- Section IV. Reference
Optimizing storage with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
When you install Storage Foundation or Storage Foundation High Availability in the VMware guest, you can use the following Veritas InfoScale storage optimization technologies to maximize your storage utilization:
Table: Storage optimization options in Veritas InfoScale product components
Storage optimization feature | Description |
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Compression | Maximize storage utilization by reducing file sizes. |
Thin Reclamation | Optimize your thin array usage by setting set up thin storage. |
SmartMove | Optimize your thin array usage with thin reclamation solutions to maintain thin storage. |
SmartTier | Maximize storage efficiency by moving data to storage tiers based on age, priority, and access rate criteria. |
SmartTier for Oracle | Oracle-optimized method to maximize storage efficiency by moving data to storage tiers based on age, priority, and access rate criteria. |