About virtual machine availability options with KVM and Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) Solutions

While application availability is very important for KVM users, virtual machine availability is equally important in KVM environments. Virtual machine availability can be provided by adopting Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) in the host. VCS in this case monitors the virtual machines as a resource.

See Table: Comparison of availability options.

For setup information for VCS:

See Installing and configuring Veritas Cluster Server for virtual machine and application availability .

Note:

You can also use the cluster functionality of Veritas Storage Foundation HA or Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA if you need storage management capabilities in addition to virtual machine availability for your KVM host.