About setting up logical partitions (LPARs) with Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions products
Before setting up your virtual environment, verify that your planned configuration will meet the system requirements, licensing and other considerations for installation with Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions products.
Licensing: Symantec Storage Foundation or Symantec Storage Foundation Cluster File System in an LPAR may be licensed either by licensing the entire server (for an unlimited number of LPARs) or licensing the maximum number of processors cores assigned to that LPAR.
IBM Power virtualization requirements: see IBM documentation.
Symantec product requirements: see Table: Symantec product requirements
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Release Notes: each Symantec product contains last minute news and important details for each product, including updates to system requirements and supported software. Review the Release Notes for the latest information before you start installing the product.
The product documentation is available on the Web at the following location:
https://sort.symantec.com/documents
Table: IBM Power Virtualization system requirements
IBM Power Virtualization requirement
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Description |
Supported architecture
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Power PC |
Minimum system requirements
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No specific requirements. See the Release Notes for your product. |
Recommended system requirements
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6GB plus the required disk space recommended by the guest operating system per guest. For most
operating systems more than 6GB of disk space is recommended
One processor core or hyper-thread for each virtualized CPU and one for the host
2GB of RAM plus additional RAM for LPARs
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IBM documentation for more information
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Table: Symantec product requirements
Symantec product requirement
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Description |
Hardware
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Full virtualization-enabled CPU
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH211575
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Software
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Symantec Dynamic Multi-pathing 6.1
Used for storage visibility on logical partitions (LPARs) and VIOS
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Symantec Storage Foundation 6.1
Used for storage management on LPARs and VIOS
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Symantec Storage Foundation HA 6.1
Storage Foundation and High Availability 6.1
Used for storage management and clustering on LPARs and VIOS
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Symantec Cluster Server 6.1
Used for applications and managed LPARs monitoring and failover
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Symantec ApplicationHA 6.1
Used for application monitoring and availability inside the managed LPARs
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Supported OS version in LPAR
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See the Symantec product Release Notes. |
Supported OS management LPAR
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See the Symantec product Release Notes. |
Storage
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Networking
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Documentation: see the product release notes to for the most current system requirements, limitations, and known issues:
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Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing Release Notes
Symantec Storage Foundation Release Notes
Symantec Storage Foundation HA Release Notes
Symantec Storage Foundation for Cluster Server HA Release Notes
Symantec Cluster Server HA Release Notes
Symantec ApplicationHA Release Notes
Veritas Operations Manager Release Notes
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Symantec Operations Readiness Tools:
https://sort.symantec.com/documents
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Storage Foundation DocCentral Site:
http://sfdoccentral.symantec.com/
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Installation, patching, and configuration requirements:
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Symantec strongly recommends that you use Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions products 6.1 with the latest patches. No other configuration is required. Refer to the following website for the latest patches for Storage Foundation 6.1 on AIX:
https://sort.symantec.com/checklist/install/
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To use VCS to manage LPARs as virtual machines, the following requirements must be met.
Table: VCS system requirements for the LPAR-supported configurations
VCS requirement
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Description |
VCS version
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6.0 and later |
Supported OS version in LPARs
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AIX 6.1 TL 5 and above.
AIX 7.1
and above.
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Supported VIOS version
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2.1.3.10-FP-23 and above |
Supported HMC version
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7.2.0.0
Note: |
Best practice: all the physical servers that are part of a cluster are managed by the same HMC. |
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Supported hardware
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Power 5, 6, and 7 |
Table: N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) requirements
NPIV requirement
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Description |
NPIV support
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Included with PowerVM Express, Standard, and Enterprise Edition and supports AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.1. |
VIO requirements
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NPIV requires a minimum of Power6 systems, VIOS 2.1, and 8GB HBA adapters. NPIV also requires NPIV aware switches. The end storage devices need not be NPIV aware. |
Hardware requirements
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NPIV requires extended functionality on the HBA. Currently IBM sells this as an 8GB HBA, part number XXXXX. The SAN Switch ports must also support NPIV as well, Brocade and Cisco make products that provide this functionality. |
Information for NPIV and how to configure an IBM VIO environment
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See IBM documentation. |
Installation, patching, and configuration requirements for NPIV support:
No patches are needed at the time of release. No other configuration is required.
Using 6.1 products with the latest patches when they become available is strongly recommended.
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For current information on patches, see:
https://vos.symantec.com/checklist/install/
You can use Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) by Symantec in a IBM PowerVM virtualization environment to provide mission-critical clustering and failover capabilities.
See About IBM LPARs with N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV).
See Boot device management on NPIV presented devices.
See Additional documentation for AIX virtualization.