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 |
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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 |
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 |
Application failover for KVM guest virtual machines |
VCS in the KVM guest virtual machines |
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. |