Symantec redesigned its industry-leading VERITAS State Foundation product to provide IT organizations with unprecedented functionality that allows it to view applications and storage sources across data centers, each major operating system, and storage hardware platforms. In addition, there is an outstanding function that can pre-empt the control of its storage environment. Other vendors can not provide such a feature even for a single operating system or storage hardware platform, but Symantec can introduce this feature to support all major operating system environments and storage hardware devices. VERITAS State Foundation is a revolutionary milestone set by Symantec in its efforts to help users optimize their multi-platform data center environment. We use cross-platform technology to create solutions that are unique in the industry, providing visibility to the entire storage environment in terms of data center scope and the ability to control and manage the environment.

     VERITAS State Foundation 5.0 contains the Stage Foundation Management Server, a new technology that provides centralized multi-host management capabilities between Unix, Linux, and Windows platforms. This unique technology allows users to obtain enterprise-wide visibility, control, and standardization of data center infrastructure. It allows IT organizations to centrally manage their applications, servers, and storage environments, allowing them to deploy applications quickly, simplify data transfer procedures, upgrade service levels, reduce the risk of human error, and increase visibility and control throughout the environment. The Stage Foundation Management Server supports VERITAS Stage Foundation 4.x and 5.0 versions, which means that users can view and manage all such Stage Foundation situations in their entire data center through a single integrated tool.

     Dynamic State Tiering(DST), one of the functions of the Stage Foundation, allows data to be moved so that the company can compare appropriate storage hardware levels and applications, and when the value and priority of information change over time, Move information to different levels of online storage, thereby reducing storage costs. System administrators can use the appropriate principles to move data between multiple storage levels within the application in a functioning multi-platform environment without affecting the actual production system or user.

     Dynamic Multi-Drawing(DMP), which is part of VERITAS State Foundation 5.0, is an advanced multipath technology that delivers advanced I/O performance, device exploration, and path fault-tolerant transfer via SAN. The Stage Foundation Management Server will fully support DMP management, thus increasing visibility in the storage environment and reducing risk. For example, IT managers can perform array and HBA upgrades for multiple hosts at the same time, and check online, backup, and other factors before starting work to minimize the possibility of human error.

    VERITAS Volume Replicator是賽門鐵克高可用性/災(zāi)難恢復(fù)（HA/DR）解決方案的一部份，其效能隨著Storage Foundation Management Server的推出而獲得大幅提升。對(duì)VERITAS Volume Replicator所保護(hù)的系統(tǒng)進(jìn)行集中式管理，IT組織將可有效調(diào)整HA/DR作業(yè)。此外，利用新增的“Bunker復(fù)制”功能，VERITAS Volume Replicator可讓用戶將數(shù)據(jù)同步復(fù)制到Bunker網(wǎng)站，同時(shí)以異步方式復(fù)制到遠(yuǎn)程位置上。Bunker復(fù)制可確保應(yīng)用程序交易不會(huì)因作業(yè)失敗而 遺失，并可支持任何距離的復(fù)制作業(yè)。VERITAS Volume Replicator完整支持異質(zhì) Unix、Linux 與 Windows操作系統(tǒng)以及異質(zhì)存儲(chǔ)裝置，因此可為IT組織提供無(wú)與倫比的選擇性與彈性，來(lái)選取最適用且合乎成本效益的平臺(tái)。