About simplified management

Independent of how an operating system is hosted, consistent storage management tools save an administrator time and reduce the complexity of the environment. Veritas InfoScale products in the guest provide the same command set, storage namespace, and environment as in a non-virtual environment.

The simplified management use case is about ease of use for provisioning virtual machines: setting up the LPARs using the same command set, storage namespace, and environment as in a non-virtual environment.

To implement simplified management use case, configure Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) in the Virtual I/O server (VIOS) and implement DMP or Storage Foundation in the Virtual I/O clients or Logical partitions (LPARs).

DMP is supported in VIOS servers and in LPARs:

Veritas InfoScale products supported in LPARs: