Veritas InfoScale Solutions configuration options for the kernel-based virtual machines environment

Veritas InfoScale Solutions products support the configurations listed in Table: Veritas InfoScale Solutions supported configuration options in the KVM environment. The configurations profiled in the table below are the minimum required to achieve the storage and availability objectives listed. You can mix and match the use of Veritas InfoScale Solutions products as needed to achieve the desired level of storage visibility, management, replication support using VVR, availability, and cluster failover for your kernel-based virtual machines (KVM) hosts and guest virtual machines.

Table: Veritas InfoScale Solutions supported configuration options in the KVM environment

Objective

Recommended Veritas InfoScale Solutions product configuration

Storage visibility for KVM guest virtual machines

Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) in the KVM guest virtual machines

Storage visibility for KVM hosts

DMP in the KVM hosts

Storage management features and replication support using VVR for KVM guest virtual machines

Storage Foundation (SF) in the KVM guest virtual machines

See Storage Foundation in the virtualized guest machine.

Advanced storage management features and replication support using VVR for KVM hosts

Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFSHA) in the KVM hosts

End-to-end storage visibility in KVM hosts and guest virtual machines

DMP in the KVM host and guest virtual machines

Storage management features and replication support using VVR in the KVM guest virtual machines and storage visibility in in the KVM host

DMP in the KVM host and SF in the KVM guest virtual machines

See Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the KVM host and Storage Foundation HA in the KVM guest virtual machine.

Virtual machine monitoring, migration, and failover for KVM hosts

Cluster Server (VCS) in the KVM hosts

See Cluster Server in the KVM host.

Application failover for KVM guest virtual machines

VCS in the KVM guest virtual machines

See Cluster Server in the guest.

Application availability and virtual machine availability

ApplicationHA in the KVM guest virtual machines and VCS in the KVM host

Application failover across KVM guest virtual machines and physical hosts

VCS in KVM guest virtual machines and KVM physical host machines

See Cluster Server in a cluster across virtual machine guests and physical machines.

More Information

About setting up KVM with Veritas InfoScale Solutions

Virtualization use cases addressed by Veritas InfoScale products