Veritas InfoScale™ Virtualization Guide - Linux on ESXi
- Section I. Overview
- About Veritas InfoScale solutions in a VMware environment
- Section II. Deploying Veritas InfoScale products in a VMware environment
- Getting started
- Understanding Storage Configuration
- Configuring storage
- Enabling disk UUID on virtual machines
- Installing Array Support Library (ASL) for VMDK on cluster nodes
- Excluding the boot disk from the Volume Manager configuration
- Creating the VMDK files
- Mapping the VMDKs to each virtual machine (VM)
- Enabling the multi-write flag
- Getting consistent names across nodes
- Creating a file system
- Section III. Use cases for Veritas InfoScale product components in a VMware environment
- Application availability using Cluster Server
- Multi-tier business service support
- Improving storage visibility, availability, and I/O performance using Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- Use cases for Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) in the VMware environment
- How DMP works
- Achieving storage visibility using Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the hypervisor
- Achieving storage availability using Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the hypervisor
- Improving I/O performance with Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the hypervisor
- Achieving simplified management using Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the hypervisor and guest
- Improving data protection, storage optimization, data migration, and database performance
- Use cases for Veritas InfoScale product components in a VMware guest
- Protecting data with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Optimizing storage with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- About SmartTier in the VMware environment
- About compression with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- About thin reclamation with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- About SmartMove with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- About SmartTier for Oracle with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Migrating data with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Improving database performance with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Setting up virtual machines for fast failover using Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability on VMware disks
- About use cases for InfoScale Enterprise in the VMware guest
- Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability operation in VMware virtualized environments
- Storage Foundation functionality and compatibility matrix
- About setting up Storage Foundation Cluster File High System High Availability on VMware ESXi
- Planning a Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) configuration
- Enable Password-less SSH
- Enabling TCP traffic to coordination point (CP) Server and management ports
- Configuring coordination point (CP) servers
- Deploying Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) software
- Configuring Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA)
- Configuring non-SCSI3 fencing
- Section IV. Reference
About SmartMove with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
The SmartMove utility optimizes move and copy operations. The SmartMove utility leverages the knowledge that Veritas File System (VxFS) has of the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) storage. VxFS lets VxVM know which blocks have data. When VxVM performs an operation that copies or moves data, SmartMove enables the operation to only copy or move the blocks used by the file system.
This capability improves performance for synchronization, mirroring, and copying operations because it reduces the number of blocks that are copied. SmartMove only works with VxFS file systems that are mounted on VxVM volumes. If a file system is not mounted, the utility has no visibility into the usage on the file system.
The SmartMove functionality is the same in the VMware environment as in the physical devices.
For more information about SmartMove, see Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Administrator's Guide or Storage Foundation Administrator's Guide.