InfoScale™ 9.0 Virtualization Guide - Solaris
- Section I. Overview of InfoScale solutions in Solaris virtualization environments
- Section II. Zones
- InfoScale Enterprise Solutions support for Solaris Native Zones
- About Solaris Zones
- About VCS support for zones
- Configuring VCS in zones
- Prerequisites for configuring VCS in zones
- Deciding on the zone root location
- Performing the initial internal zone configuration
- About installing applications in a zone
- Configuring the service group for the application
- Configuring a zone resource in a failover service group with the hazonesetup utility
- Configuring zone resource in a parallel service group with the hazonesetup utility
- Configuring multiple zone resources using same VCS user for password less communication
- Modifying the service group configuration
- Verifying the zone configuration
- Synchronizing the zone configuration across cluster nodes
- Performing maintenance tasks
- Troubleshooting zones
- Adding VxFS file systems to a non-global zone
- Mounting VxFS as lofs into a non-global zone
- Mounting VxFS directly into a non-global zone from global zone
- Mounting VxFS as VxFS inside a non-global zone
- Adding a direct mount to a zone's configuration
- Benefits of a VxFS mount in a non-global zone over VxFS mount from global zone into the non-global zone
- Cluster FileSystem mounts
- Concurrent I/O access in non-global zones
- Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager
- Exporting VxVM volumes to a non-global zone
- About InfoScale SFRAC component support for Oracle RAC in a zone environment
- Supported configuration
- Known issues with supporting a InfoScale SFRAC component in a zone environment
- CFS mount agent does not support mounting VxVM devices inside non-global zones
- Issue with VCS agents
- Stopping non-global zones configured with direct-mount file systems from outside VCS causes the corresponding zone resource to fault or go offline
- Error message displayed for PrivNIC resource if zone is not running
- Warning messages displayed when VCS restarts
- The installer log of non-global zone contains warning messages
- Issue with CFS mounts
- Configuring Solaris non-global zones for disaster recovery
- Software limitations of InfoScale support of non-global zones
- Administration commands are not supported in non-global zone
- VxFS file system is not supported as the root of a non-global zone
- QIO and CQIO are not supported
- Package installation in non-global zones
- Package removal with non-global zone configurations
- Root volume cannot be added to non-global zones
- Some Arctera Volume Manager operations can cause volume device names to go out of sync
- Solaris branded zone support
- InfoScale Enterprise Solutions support for Solaris Native Zones
- Section III. Oracle VM Server for SPARC
- InfoScale Enterprise Solutions support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
- About Oracle VM Server for SPARC
- Terminology for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
- Oracle VM Server for SPARC deployment models
- Benefits of deploying Arctera InfoScale Enterprise solutions in Oracle VM server for SPARC
- Features
- Split InfoScale stack model
- Guest-based InfoScale stack model
- Layered InfoScale stack model
- System requirements
- Product release notes
- Product licensing
- Installing InfoScale in a Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment
- Exporting a VeritasArctera volume to a guest domain from the control domain
- Provisioning storage for a guest domain
- Using Arctera Volume Manager snapshots for cloning logical domain boot disks
- Support of live migration for Solaris LDOMs with fencing configured in DMP mode
- Configuring Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domains for disaster recovery
- 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 warm migration
- Overview of a live migration
- Prerequisites before you perform domain migration
- Supported deployment models for Oracle VM Server for SPARC domain migration with VCS
- Migrating Oracle VM guest when VCS is installed in the control domain that manages the guest domain
- Migrating Oracle VM guest when VCS is installed in the control domain and single-node VCS is installed inside the guest domain to monitor applications inside the guest domain
- Migrating Oracle VM guest when VCS cluster is installed in the guest domains to manage applications for Oracle VM Server for SPARC version 2.1 and above
- Migrating Oracle VM guest when VCS cluster is installed in the guest domains to manage applications for Oracle VM Server for SPARC version 2.0
- 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
- A typical setup for a Logical Domain with multiple I/O services
- Identify supported storage and network services
- Determine the number of nodes to form VCS cluster
- Install and configure VCS inside the control domain and alternate I/O domain
- Configuring storage services
- Configure storage service groups
- Configure network service groups
- Configure a service group to monitor services from multiple I/O domains
- Configure the AlternateIO resource
- Configure the service group for a Logical Domain
- Failover scenarios
- Recommendations while configuring VCS and Oracle VM Server for SPARC with multiple I/O domains
- Sample VCS configuration for AlternateIO resource configured as a fail over type
- Configuring VCS on logical domains to manage applications using services from multiple I/O domains
- SFRAC support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC environments
- About deploying SFRAC in Oracle VM Server for SPARC environments
- Sample configuration scenarios
- Preparing to deploy SFRAC in logical domain environments
- SFRAC with Oracle RAC database on I/O domains of two hosts
- SFRAC with Oracle RAC database on guest domains of two hosts
- SFRAC with Oracle RAC database on guest domains of single host
- SFRAC with Oracle RAC database on I/O domain and guest domain of single host
- Support for live migration in FSS environments
- Using SmartIO in the virtualized environment
- InfoScale Enterprise Solutions support for Oracle VM Server for SPARC
- Section IV. Reference
How InfoScale Enterprise Solutions works in the guest domains
The entire InfoScale stack is co-located within the guest in this deployment model.
Arctera recommends that you export all paths to a disk which is being exported to a guest and let DMP do the multi-pathing of the disk in the guest domain.
Note:
It is also possible to have the VxVM stack be fully functional (guest-based model limitations still apply) in the guest with DMP only seeing a single path to each disk and DMP in the Control or I/O domains managing the multiple paths to these disks. This implies all features including Thin Reclamation.
Note:
Only full SCSI disks can be used under Arctera Volume Manager (VxVM) and DMP in this model. Non-SCSI devices (volume, file, slice, etc) are not supported.
Arctera InfoScale Enterprise Solutions supports running in the guest domains in both single-node, multiple-node, and multiple-node high availability configurations.
For a single node configuration, VxVM (including DMP) and VxFS are co-located in the guest domain.
For clustered nodes, CVM can also be used inside the guest domain. As with regular physical nodes, forming a CVM cluster of logical domain guests requires shared storage visibility across the guests that are part of the cluster.
See the Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Administrator's Guide for CVM information.
See the Storage Foundation Configuration and Upgrade Guide for installation and configuration information.
For clustered nodes in a highly available environment, install Cluster Server (VCS) in the guest domains.
See the Cluster Server documentation for more information.
Arctera Volume Replicator (VVR) is supported in the guest-based InfoScale stack model in the following configurations:
A guest domain on one host acting as the VVR primary, and another guest on another host acting as the VVR secondary.
Two guest domains on the same physical host, but you must export separate LUNs or disks to the data volumes and Storage Replicator Logs of the two guest domains.
In this model, the boot disk of the guest can be a VxVM volume. For more details on this support:
See Provisioning Arctera Volume Manager volumes as boot disks for guest domains.