User interfaces

The InfoScale products offer the following user interfaces:

Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) console

The Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) console provides a graphical view of your storage. It lets you monitor and manage storage objects, which include disk groups, disks, volumes, and Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage arrays. The following figure depicts the Disk Groups view of a system.

VEA console: Disk Groups: Disk View
Cluster Manager (Java console)

The Cluster Manager interface, which is also referred to as the Java console, offers complete administration capabilities for a cluster. You can use the different views in the Java console to monitor clusters and VCS objects, which include service groups, systems, resources, and resource types.

Solutions Configuration Center (SCC)

The Solutions Configuration Center (SCC) interface guides you through setting up your InfoScale environment for various configurations:

The Applications tab lets you configure an application for different solutions, by guiding you through the workflow. The following figure depicts the Disaster Recovery Configuration workflow for generic applications.

SCC: Applications tab: Solutions for generic applications

The Solutions tab lets you easily access a wizard to configure your application for a particular solution. The following figure depicts the list of Disaster Recovery Configuration Wizards for the supported applications.

SCC: Solutions tab: DR configuration wizards
Command-line interfaces (CLIs)

The InfoScale products also provide many CLIs that let you set up your availability and storage configurations. For example, the VCWsilent utility lets you create and delete clusters, one at a time. For further information about these CLIs, refer to the appropriate administrator's guides.

Symantec High Availability dashboard

Cluster Server provides the Symantec High Availability dashboard, which is an interface that integrates with the VMware vSphere Client. Use this dashboard to administer application monitoring at the cluster-level or the data center-level in a VMware virtual environment that involves non-shared VMware virtual disks.

Note:

This dashboard is visible in the vSphere Client only if you install Symantec High Availability Console 6.2. The Console is not updated for release 7.1, and it will be deprecated in the next release of Veritas InfoScale.

Symantec High Availability view

Cluster Server provides the Symantec High Availability tab, which is an interface that integrates with the VMware vSphere Client. Use this tab to configure and control application monitoring on an individual virtual machine in a VMware virtual environment that involves non-shared VMware virtual disks.

Note:

This tab is visible in the vSphere Client only if you install Symantec High Availability Console 6.2. The Console is not updated for release 7.1, and it will be deprecated in the next release of Veritas InfoScale.