Start Virtual Business Services from the Veritas Operations Manager console. When a Virtual Business Service starts, its associated service groups are brought online.

Stop Virtual Business Services from the Veritas Operations Manager console. When a Virtual Business Service stops, its associated service groups are taken offline.

Applications that are under the control of Symantec ApplicationHA can be part of a Virtual Business Service. Symantec ApplicationHA enables starting, stopping, and monitoring of an application within a virtual machine.

If applications are hosted on VMware virtual machines, you can configure the virtual machines to automatically start or stop when you start or stop the Virtual Business Service.

Establish service group relationships and set the order to bring service groups online and to take them offline. It ensures that the service groups from different clusters are brought online or taken offline in the correct order. This order is governed by the service group's relationships with other service groups, which are referred to as child service groups. Setting the correct order of service group dependency is critical to achieve business continuity and high availability.

Establish service group relationships and specify the required reaction of an application component to a high availability event in an underlying tier.

Manage the Virtual Business Service from Veritas Operations Manager or from the clusters participating in the Virtual Business Service.

Recover the entire Virtual Business Service to a remote site when a disaster occurs.

The service group operations that are performed using the Veritas Cluster Server management console.

The service group operations that are performed using the Veritas Cluster Server command-line interface.

The service group operations that are performed using the Veritas Cluster Server Java console.

VBS Availability Add-on is not supported for composite Virtual Business Services. You can use it only for Virtual Business Services.