Veritas InfoScale™ 7.3.1 Virtualization Guide - Solaris
- Section I. Overview of Veritas InfoScale Solutions used in Solaris virtualization
- Section II. Zones and Projects
- Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Solaris Zones
- About VCS support for zones
- About the Mount agent
- Configuring VCS in zones
- Prerequisites for configuring VCS in zones
- Deciding on the zone root location
- Configuring the service group for the application
- Exporting VxVM volumes to a non-global zone
- About SF Oracle RAC support for Oracle RAC in a zone environment
- Known issues with supporting SF Oracle RAC in a zone environment
- Software limitations of Storage Foundation support of non-global zones
- Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Solaris Projects
- Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Solaris Zones
- Section III. Oracle VM Server for SPARC
- Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
- Oracle VM Server for SPARC deployment models
- Benefits of deploying Storage Foundation High Availability solutions in Oracle VM server for SPARC
- Features
- Split Storage Foundation stack model
- Guest-based Storage Foundation stack model
- Layered Storage Foundation stack model
- System requirements
- Installing Storage Foundation in a Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment
- Provisioning storage for a guest domain
- Software limitations
- Known issues
- Cluster Server support for using CVM with multiple nodes in a Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment
- VCS: Configuring Oracle VM Server for SPARC for high availability
- About VCS in a Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment
- About Cluster Server configuration models in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment
- Cluster Server setup to fail over a logical domain on a failure of logical domain
- Cluster Server setup to fail over an Application running inside logical domain on a failure of Application
- Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domain migration in VCS environment
- Overview of a live migration
- About configuring VCS for Oracle VM Server for SPARC with multiple I/O domains
- Configuring VCS to manage a Logical Domain using services from multiple I/O domains
- Configuring storage services
- Configure a service group to monitor services from multiple I/O domains
- Configure the AlternateIO resource
- Configure the service group for a Logical Domain
- SF Oracle RAC support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC environments
- Support for live migration in FSS environments
- Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
- Section IV. Reference
About SmartIO in the Solaris virtualized environments
Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions are supported in the Solaris virtualized environments. This section describes how you can use SmartIO in the Solaris virtualized environments.
Table: Solaris: Oracle VM Server for SPARC shows how SmartIO can be used in the Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment.
When you install Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions in the guest, you can use SmartIO to cache data onto an SSD or any other supported fast device. The SSD used for the cache can be either a PCIe or SAS device, or an array-based SSD.
When you install Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions in the control domain, you can use VxVM read caching, VxFS read caching and write-back caching at the control domain level.
SmartIO caching is supported for Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC only on guest domains.
If an array-based SSD is used, live migration is supported with SmartIO caching. With direct attached devices (PCIe), live migration is not supported if SmartIO caching is enabled. If you need to perform live migration, you can use manual steps.
See Performing live migration between LDOMs in the SmartIO environment.
Table: Solaris: Oracle VM Server for SPARC
Configuration in guest | Configuration in control domain | Caching takes place: | VxVM read caching | VxFS read caching | VxFS writeback caching |
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"Split stack" VxFS | SF (VxVM/CVM/DMP) | in the control domain | Yes | No | No |
"Guest-based stack" SF | Any | in the guest | Yes | Yes | Yes |
"Guest-based stack" SFCFS | Any | in the guest | Yes | Yes | Yes |
"Guest-based stack" SFRAC | No SF stack | in the guest | Yes | Yes | No |
"Layered stack" SF | DMP | in the guest | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ZFS | SF, CVM,VxFS, or CFS | in the control domain | Yes | N/A | N/A |
Table: Solaris: zones shows how SmartIO can be used in the Solaris zones environment.
Table: Solaris: zones
Configuration in non-global zones | Configuration in global zone | Caching takes place: | VxVM read caching | VxFS read caching | VxFS writeback caching |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
SF | SF | in the global zone | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SFCFS | SF | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |