Veritas InfoScale provides application monitoring capability for SQL Server in the physical and VMware virtual environment.

The application monitoring capability is based on the VCS application agent and storage agent framework that combine together to monitor the application and storage components respectively.

In a physical environment, the application monitoring configuration employs shared or local storage. The shared storage employs NetApp filers over an iSCSI or Fibre Channel (FC) connection and NetApp SnapMirror for replication. The classic VCS infrastructure is used to configure an application for high availability in physical environment.

In a VMware virtual environment, the storage components employ non-shared virtual disks created on a data store or Raw Device Mappings (RDM)/SAN storage. The Veritas High Availability solution is used to configure an application for high availability in VMware virtual environment.