Enterprise Volume Management System

Enterprise Volume Management System

Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) is a flexible, integrated volume management software used to manage storage systems under Linux.

Its features include:

  • Handle EVMS, Linux LVM and LVM2 volumes
  • Handle many kinds of disk partitioning schemes
  • Handle many different file systems (Ext2, Ext3, FAT, JFS, NTFS, OCFS2, OpenGFS, ReiserFS, Swap, XFS etc.)
  • Multi-disk (MD) management
  • Software RAID: level 0, 1, 4 and 5 (no support for level 6 and 10)
  • Drive linking (device concatenation)
  • Multipath I/O support
  • Manage shared cluster storage
  • Expand and shrink volumes and file systems online or offline (depending on the file system's capabilities)
  • Snapshots (frozen images of volumes), optionally writable
  • Conversion between different volume types
  • Move partitions
  • Make, check and repair file systems
  • Bad block relocation
  • Three types of user interface: GUI, text mode interface and CLI
  • Backup and restore the EVMS metadata

EVMS is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. EVMS is supported now in some Linux distributions, among others it is now (2008) SUSE, Debian and Gentoo

Read more about Enterprise Volume Management System:  LVM Vs EVMS

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