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Support for protection against ransomware

To enhance the support for protection against ransomware, the Veritas File System (VxFS) module now provides the following capabilities:

  • A new mode called soft Write Once Read Many (WORM) for WORM-enabled files, file systems, and storage checkpoints which lets you reduce or remove the retention period of these entities
  • Upgrade of a soft WORM-enabled entity to a WORM-enabled entity (compliance mode)
  • Creation of non-modifiable storage checkpoints on WORM-enabled or soft WORM-enabled file systems
  • Extension of the retention period of WORM-enabled files and checkpoints beyond the year 2038 up to the year 2106

The minimum software requirements to be able to use these capabilities are:

  • InfoScale Foundation, InfoScale Storage, or InfoScale Enterprise 8.0
  • Any supported RHEL or SLES distribution
  • Disk layout version (DLV) 17

For details, refer to the following documents:

  • Storage Foundation Administrator’s Guide
  • Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Administrator’s Guide
Support for protection against ransomware

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