How Cluster Server (VCS) manages Virtual Machine (VM) guests

High-level overview of how VCS manages VM guests.

For detailed instructions on creating and configuring a VM guest, see the installation section in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) virtualization documentation.

To configure a VM guest for a physical machine to physical machine (PM-PM) configuration, the following conditions apply:

Bundled agents are included with VCS for managing many applications. The KVMGuest agent is included and can be used to manage and provide high availability for KVM guests. For information on KVMGuest agent attributes, resource dependency and agent function, refer to the Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide.