Overview of EVMS

The Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) 2.5.5 management tool for Linux* is an extensible storage management tool that integrates all aspects of volume management, such as disk partitioning, the Logical Volume Manager (LVM), the Multiple-Disk (MD) manager for software RAIDs, the Device Mapper (DM) for multipath I/O configuration, and file system operations.

Benefits of EVMS

EVMS provides the following benefits:

  • An open source volume manager

  • A plug-in framework for flexible extensibility and customization

  • Plug-ins to extend functionality for new or evolving storage managers

  • Support for foreign partition formats

  • Cluster-aware


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