Veritas Flex Software for 5340 High availability + 5 Years Essential Support - On-premise License - 1680 TB Capacity

Introducing Veritas Flex Software for the 5340 platform—an enterprise-grade high-availability solution engineered to safeguard your most critical services with continuous uptime and robust data protection. This on-premise license delivers a formidable 1680 TB capacity and is backed by 5 years of Essential Support, all through Veritas’ corporate licensing program (CLP) for streamlined procurement and predictable budgeting. Designed for organizations that cannot tolerate downtime, Veritas Flex for 5340 combines proactive health monitoring, automated failover, and policy-driven protection to ensure your applications remain online, compliant, and recoverable in the face of disruptions. Whether you’re protecting mission-critical databases, business applications, or multi-tier services, this solution helps you minimize downtime, accelerate recovery, and maintain service levels across on-premises environments and hybrid deployments.

• Continuous availability for critical workloads: Veritas Flex delivers fault-tolerant operation with rapid, automatic failover, reducing mean time to recovery (MTTR) and preserving service-level agreements for essential applications. Its architecture emphasizes proactive health checks, seamless data synchronization, and predictable failback, so your users experience minimal disruption during planned maintenance or unexpected outages.
• 1680 TB licensed capacity for scalable protection: With a substantial 1680 TB capacity under license, you gain room to protect expansive data estates, including backups, snapshots, archives, and replicated data. This generous quota supports growth and long-term retention strategies, helping you optimize backup windows and storage costs while staying ahead of data growth trends.
• On-premise deployment with centralized management: Install and operate the software within your data center or private cloud, enabling low-latency data access and complete control over protection policies. A single, centralized management interface simplifies policy creation, monitoring, and reporting, giving IT teams clear visibility into protection health and compliance posture.
• Five-year Essential Support: The package includes 5 years of Essential Support, offering access to Veritas experts, software updates, security advisories, and critical patch coverage. This long-term assistance helps you maintain peak performance, mitigate risk, and extend the value of your investment across major upgrades and evolving workloads.
• Veritas Corporate Licensing Program (CLP) with flexible pricing: CLP provides corporate-friendly pricing and streamlined purchasing for large organizations. Simplify renewals, consolidate licenses, and transact through a program designed to align with enterprise procurement practices, reducing administrative overhead and improving budgeting accuracy.

Technical Details of Veritas Flex Software for 5340 High Availability + 5 Years Essential Support

• License type: On-Premise
• Licensed capacity: 1680 TB
• Support term: 5 Years Essential Support
• Licensing program: Veritas Corporate Licensing Program (CLP)
• Deployment model: On-site software for the 5340 platform
• Target audience: Corporate/enterprise environments requiring high availability and robust data protection
• Key capabilities: High availability, automatic failover, policy-based protection, and centralized management across critical workloads

How to install Veritas Flex Software for 5340 High Availability

• Step 1 — Plan and prerequisites: Assess your environment, confirm hardware compatibility with the 5340 platform, and define protected workloads, service levels, and recovery objectives. Ensure network connectivity, storage readiness, and appropriate access permissions for installation and configuration.
• Step 2 — Acquire and apply the license: Obtain the Veritas Flex license for 1680 TB capacity through the Veritas CLP channel or authorized distributor, then apply the license to the 5340 appliance per the licensing guide to unlock full protection capabilities.
• Step 3 — Install the software: Run the Veritas Flex installation on the 5340 hardware in accordance with the official deployment guide. Complete the initial setup, including license activation, time synchronization, and security configurations to establish a solid baseline.
• Step 4 — Configure protection policies and failover groups: Create policy-based protections for key applications and data sets, define failover groups, and configure automatic failover thresholds. Establish replication targets, recovery points, and testing procedures to verify resilience.
• Step 5 — Validate and monitor: Perform end-to-end validation tests, simulate failover scenarios, and monitor protection health, performance metrics, and alerting through the centralized console. Schedule regular drills and maintain ongoing optimization based on observed workloads.

Frequently asked questions

• Q: What is Veritas Flex Software for 5340 High Availability?

  A: It is an enterprise-grade on-premise solution designed to provide continuous availability and robust data protection for critical workloads on the 5340 platform, with capacity-licensed protection and extended support through CLP.

• Q: What does the 1680 TB capacity refer to?

  A: The 1680 TB capacity represents the licensed protection footprint for data and backups managed by Veritas Flex on the 5340 system, allowing you to scale within that limit as data grows.

• Q: Is support included?

  A: Yes. The package includes 5 Years Essential Support, covering software updates, security advisories, and access to Veritas technical experts during the support term.

• Q: What is the Veritas Corporate Licensing Program (CLP)?

  A: CLP offers corporate pricing and streamlined licensing for large organizations, simplifying procurement, renewals, and license management within an enterprise environment.

• Q: Can this be deployed in a hybrid cloud environment?

  A: Veritas Flex on the 5340 is designed for on-premise deployment with strong data-protection capabilities; it can integrate with compatible cloud and backup targets as part of a broader data-protection strategy, depending on your infrastructure and licenses.