About setting up KVM with Veritas InfoScale Solutions
Before setting up your virtual environment, verify that your planned configuration will meet the system requirements, licensing and other considerations for installation with Veritas InfoScale Solutions products.
Licensing: customers running Storage Foundation (SF) or Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) in a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) environment are entitled to use an unlimited number of guests on each licensed server or CPU.
Red Hat and SUSE system requirements: see Table: Red Hat and SUSE system requirements
Veritas product requirements: see Table: Veritas product requirements
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Release Notes: each Veritas 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.veritas.com/documents
Table: Red Hat and SUSE system requirements
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) |
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Supported architecture
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Minimum system requirement
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6 GB free disk space 2 GB of RAM |
6 GB free disk space 2 GB of RAM |
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Recommended system requirement
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6 GB plus the required disk space recommended by the guest
operating system per guest. For most operating systems more
than 6 GB of disk space is recommended
One processor core or hyper-thread for each virtualized CPU
and one for the host 2 GB of RAM plus additional RAM for virtualized guests |
6 GB plus the required disk space recommended by the guest
operating system per guest. For most operating systems more
than 6 GB of disk space is recommended
One processor core or hyper-thread for each virtualized CPU
and one for the host 2 GB of RAM plus additional RAM for virtualized guests |
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Hardware requirement
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Full virtualization-enabled CPU |
Full virtualization-enabled CPU |
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Veritas InfoScale Solutions
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Veritas InfoScale Solutions 7.3 |
Veritas InfoScale Solutions 7.3 |
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Supported OS version in the host
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[KVM, RHEV] RHEL 6 Update 3, Update 4, Update 5, Update 6, Update 7
[KVM only] RHEL 7
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SLES11 SP2, SP3 |
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Supported OS version in the virtual machine
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[KVM, RHEV] RHEL 6 Update 3, Update 4, Update 5
[KVM only] RHEL 7
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SLES11 SP2, SP3 |
Table: Veritas product requirements
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Hardware
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https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000126344 |
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Software
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Dynamic Multi-Pathing
Used for storage visibility on KVM hosts and guest virtual machines
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Storage Foundation
Used for storage management on KVM hosts and guest virtual machines
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Storage Foundation HA
Used for storage management and clustering on KVM hosts and guest virtual machines
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Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability 7.3
Used for storage management and clustering multiple KVM hosts to enable live migration of guest virtual machines
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Cluster Server
Used for virtual machine monitoring, migration, and failover
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Veritas Operations Manager 5.0
Used for application visibility and virtual host management
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Storage
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Shared storage for holding the guest image. (VM failover) Shared storage for holding the application data. (Application
failover) Local storage with Flexible Shared Storage (FSS) option enabled for VM and application failover |
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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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Table: VCS system requirements for KVM-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux configurations
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VCS version
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7.3 |
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Supported OS version in host
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RHEL 6 Update 3, Update 4, Update 5
RHEL 7
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Supported OS in VM guest
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RHEL 6 Update 3, Update 4, Update 5
RHEL 7
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Hardware requirement
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Full virtualization-enabled CPU |
Limitations and unsupported kernel-based virtual machine features
For more information on limitations and known issues, see the Veritas InfoScale Release Notes for Linux.
For KVM related limitations, see the Virtualization technology provider (RHEL or SLES) release notes.
See Linux virtualization documentation.
