Virtualization use cases addressed by Veritas InfoScale products

Virtualization use cases addressed by products:

Table: Virtualization use cases

Use case

Details

Application failover

For LDOMs:

See Cluster Server setup to fail over an Application running inside logical domain on a failure of Application.

For Zones:

See Configuring VCS in zones.

Application monitoring and management

For LDoms:

For Zones:

See Configuring VCS in zones.

Fast failover

For LDOMs:

See Clustering using Cluster Volume Manager.

For Zones:

See SFCFSHA mounts.

Live migration

See Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domain migration in VCS environment.

Physical to virtual migration

Physical to virtual migration in zone and LDom environments are basically provided from the operating system.

Physical to virtual migration for disaster recovery

For LDOMs:

See Configuring Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domains for disaster recovery.

For Zones:

See Configuring Solaris non-global zones for disaster recovery.

Simplified management

  • Consistent device naming

  • Storage management and provisioning

  • Storage management and boot disk provisioning

See Provisioning storage for a guest domain.

Storage availability

See DMP as a multi-pathing solution in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment .

See Oracle VM Server for SPARC deployment models.

Server consolidation

For LDOMs:

See About Oracle VM Server for SPARC.

For Branded Zones:

See About branded zones.

For Zones:

See About Solaris Zones.

Storage migration - array migration

See Array migration.

Virtual machine availability

For LDoms:

See About VCS in a Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment.

For Zones:

See About VCS support for zones.