SUMMARY : Veritas Volume Manager over NFS

My original post:

> Is it possible to use Veritas VM to mirror local disks to an
> NFS mounted file system?  For example, I am running VxVM
> on a Sun E450 (Solaris 7) with local disks under VxVM control.  
> On the VxVM raw volumes sits an Informix database.  I would like
> to regularly (but not constantly) mirror these volumes over
> to a NetApp NFS box (which I don't have on site yet).  Possible?
> If the DB were on a file system instead of raw volumes, would
> it make a difference?  If this is possible do I need a particular
> version or above of Veritas?

The answer is that you cannot mirror over NFS with Veritas Volume 
Manager.  VxVM can only manage directly attached devices, not NFS
mount points.  The Veritas product that will do remote replication 
(not involving NFS in any way) is Volume Replicator.  

Thanks go to:

John Martinez <john@mtbiker.net>
Kristopher Briscoe" <krisbriscoe@hotmail.com>
Girguis, Ashraf" <Ashraf.Girguis@constellation.com>
Todd M. Wilkinson" <tmwilkin@mail.com>
Colin Matthews" <colin.matthews@db.com>
Christopher Ciborowski <Chris.Ciborowski@exodus.net>
Bertrand_Hutin@notes.amdahl.com

Jeff