About setting up RHEV 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.

Table: Red Hat and SUSE system requirements

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Supported architecture

  • Intel 64

  • AMD 64

Minimum system requirement

  • 6 GB free disk space

  • 2 GB of RAM

Recommended system requirement

  • 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

Hardware requirement

Full virtualization-enabled CPU

Veritas InfoScale Solutions

Veritas InfoScale Solutions 7.3

Supported OS version in the host

RHEL 6 Update 3, Update 4, Update 5, Update 6, Update 7

Supported OS version in the virtual machine

RHEL 6 Update 3, Update 4, Update 5

Supported RHEV version

RHEV 3.4, 3.4

Table: Veritas product requirements

Hardware

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000126344

Software

  • Dynamic Multi-Pathing 7.3

    Used for storage visibility on RHEV hosts and guest virtual machines

  • Storage Foundation 7.3

    Used for storage management on RHEV hosts and guest virtual machines

  • Storage Foundation HA 7.3

    Used for storage management and clustering on RHEV hosts and guest virtual machines

  • Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability 7.3

    Used for storage management and clustering multiple RHEV hosts to enable live migration of guest virtual machines

  • Cluster Server 7.3

    Used for virtual machine monitoring, migration, and failover

  • Veritas Operations Manger 5.0

    Used for application visibility and virtual host management

Storage

  • 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 for VM and application failover

Networking

  • Configure the guest for communication over the public network

  • Setup virtual interfaces for private communication.

Documentation: see the product release notes to for the most current system requirements, limitations, and known issues:

Table: VCS system requirements for RHEV-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux configurations

VCS version

7.3

Supported OS version in host

RHEL 6 Update 3, Update 4, Update 5

Supported OS in VM guest

RHEL 6 Update 3, Update 4, Update 5

Hardware requirement

Full virtualization-enabled CPU

Limitations and unsupported RHEV-based virtual machine features

For more information on limitations and known issues, see the Veritas InfoScale Release Notes for Linux.

For RHEV related limitations, see the Virtualization technology provider (RHEL) release notes.

See Linux virtualization documentation.