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                                    EVMS meaning in Business Management ? | 
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                                    Answer» What is Enterprise Volume Management System mean?  Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) was a flexible, integrated volume management software used to manage storage systems under Linux. Its features include: Handle EVMS, Linux LVM and LVM2 volumesHandle many kinds of disk partitioning schemesHandle many different file systems (Ext2, Ext3, FAT, JFS, NTFS, OCFS2, OpenGFS, ReiserFS, Swap, XFS etc.)Multi-disk (MD) managementSoftware RAID: level 0, 1, 4 and 5 (no support for level 6 and 10)Drive linking (device concatenation)Multipath I/O supportManage shared cluster storageExpand and shrink volumes and file systems online or offline (depending on the file system's capabilities)Snapshots (frozen images of volumes), optionally writableConversion between different volume typesMove partitionsMake, check and repair file systemsBad block relocationThree types of user interface: GUI, text mode interface and CLIBackup and restore the EVMS metadataEVMS 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 reference
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