About VCS in a Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment

Cluster Server (VCS) provides high availability (HA) for Oracle VM Server for SPARC. You can configure VCS to monitor the Logical Domain, services to the Logical Domain, and the applications that run in logical domain, or to monitor only the applications that run in the logical domain.

See About Cluster Server configuration models in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment.

Table: VCS failover options for logical domain failure lists the failure scenarios and the VCS failover options based on which you can plan your VCS configuration in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment.

Table: VCS failover options for logical domain failure

Failure scenario

VCS failover

Typical VCS configuration

Logical domains, their storage, or switches fail

VCS fails over the logical domain from one node to another node

VCS is installed in the control domain of each node.

See Cluster Server setup to fail over a logical domain on a failure of logical domain.

Applications that run in logical domains fail

Or

logical domain where the application is running fails

VCS fails over the application from one logical domain to another.

VCS is installed in the guest domain of each node.

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