Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) Feature Comparison

with Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)

Feature/Functionality Benefit SVM VxVM

Price Cost Free $$$
Solaris Integration (updates/patches) Support ✔ ✘
Heterogeneous platforms Management ✘ ✔
Mirrored Copies (RAID 1) Availability ✔ ✔
Multiple Mirrors Availability ✔ ✔
Distributed Parity (RAID 5) Availability ✔ ✔
Striped Mirrors (RAID 0+1) Performance &
Availability
✔ ✔
Mirrored Stripes (RAID 1+0) Performance &
Availability
✔ ✔
Serial Write Capability Integrity &
Reliability
✔ ✘
Overlapped Writes from Multiple Integrity &
Reliability
✘ ✔
Servers
Auto-Rebuild of Failed Mirrors & RAID
(Hot Spares)
Availability ✔ ✔
Single Instance Multipath
(Loadbalancing/Alternate Pathing)
Performance &
Availability
✔ ✔
Simultaneous Access to Data Performance ✔ ✔
Import/Export Disksets Availability &
Manageability
✔ ✔
Striping/Concatenating (RAID 0) Performance ✔ ✔
Partial Mirrors Performance ✘ ✔
Fast Mirror Re-Synchronization
(includes 3rd Mirror breakoff)
Availability ✔ ✔
Soft Partitioning on a Single Volume Manageability ✔ ✔
Partitioning Management Manageability ✔ ✔
Partition Protection (Enable
Overlapping Partition)
Manageability ✔ ✔
Disk Label Protection Manageability NA *1 ✔
Device ID Support Manageability ✔ ✔
Disksets Manageability ✔ ✔
Flexible Configuration Repository Manageability ✔ ✘
Metadata Input File Updates Manageability ✔ ✔
 Feature/Functionality Benefit SVM VxVM
Wizard Based Disk Management Manageability ✔ ✔
Storage Volumes based on QoS2 Manageability ✔ ✔
SNMP Event Support Manageability ✔ ✔
Automated Disk Replacement
Capabilty
Manageability NA *3 ✔
Command Logging Interface Manageability ✔ ✔
Graphical User Interface Manageability ✔ ✔
Common Configuration Menu Manageability ✔ ✔
Graphical Disk Management Manageability ✔ ✔
Graphical Performance Analysis Manageability ✔ ✔
Logical-to-Physical Storage Mapping Manageability ✔ ✔
Edit the Configuration Changes to be
made
Manageability ✔ ✘
Simultaneous Multiple Instances Manageability ✔ ✔
Global View of Storage Resources Manageability ✔ ✔
Seamless Upgrades Including
Mirrored Roots
Manageability ✔ ✘
Disk Monitoring to Detect Failed Disks Manageability &
Availability
✔ ✔
Online Volume Expansion Manageability ✔ ✔
Instantaneous Configuration Update Manageability ✔ ✔
CIM/WBEM API Manageability ✔ ✘
JumpStart and Live Upgrade Manageability ✔ ✔
Storage-based replication for DR Manageability &
Availability
✘ ✔
Sun Best Practice for boot disks Manageability ✔ ✔
More than 32 disksets Manageability ✔ ✔

Footnotes
1. SVM does not write over a Disk Label: It allows finer level of granularity by dividing the
disks into slices
2. Through hot spares