Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.1 Virtualization Guide - AIX
- Section I. Overview
- Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions in AIX PowerVM virtual environments
- Section II. Implementation
- Setting up Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions in AIX PowerVM virtual environments
- Supported configurations for Virtual I/O servers (VIOS) on AIX
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the logical partition (LPAR)
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the Virtual I/O server (VIOS)
- Veritas InfoScale products in the logical partition (LPAR)
- Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability in the logical partition (LPAR)
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the Virtual I/O server (VIOS) and logical partition (LPAR)
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the Virtual I/O server (VIOS) and Veritas InfoScale products in the logical partition (LPAR)
- Cluster Server in the logical partition (LPAR)
- Cluster Server in the management LPAR
- Cluster Server in a cluster across logical partitions (LPARs) and physical machines
- Support for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) in IBM Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environments
- About setting up logical partitions (LPARs) with Veritas InfoScale products
- Configuring IBM PowerVM LPAR guest for disaster recovery
- Installing and configuring Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions in the logical partition (LPAR)
- Installing and configuring storage solutions in the Virtual I/O server (VIOS)
- Installing and configuring Cluster Server for logical partition and application availability
- Enabling Veritas Extension for ODM file access from WPAR with VxFS
- Supported configurations for Virtual I/O servers (VIOS) on AIX
- Setting up Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions in AIX PowerVM virtual environments
- Section III. Use cases for AIX PowerVM virtual environments
- Application to spindle visibility
- Simplified storage management in VIOS
- About simplified management
- About Dynamic Multi-Pathing in a Virtual I/O server
- About the Volume Manager (VxVM) component in a Virtual I/O server
- Configuring Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) on Virtual I/O server
- Configuring Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) pseudo devices as virtual SCSI devices
- Extended attributes in VIO client for a virtual SCSI disk
- Virtual IO client adapter settings for Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) in dual-VIOS configurations
- Using DMP to provide multi-pathing for the root volume group (rootvg)
- Boot device management on NPIV presented devices
- Virtual machine (logical partition) availability
- Simplified management and high availability for IBM Workload Partitions
- About IBM Workload Partitions
- About using IBM Workload Partitions (WPARs) with Veritas InfoScale products
- Implementing Storage Foundation support for WPARs
- How Cluster Server (VCS) works with Workload Patitions (WPARs)
- Configuring VCS in WPARs
- Configuring AIX WPARs for disaster recovery using VCS
- High availability and live migration
- About Live Partition Mobility (LPM)
- About the partition migration process and simplified management
- About Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions support for Live Partition Mobility
- Providing high availability with live migration in a Cluster Server environment
- Providing logical partition (LPAR) failover with live migration
- Limitations and unsupported LPAR features
- Multi-tier business service support
- Server consolidation
- About server consolidation
- About IBM Virtual Ethernet
- About IBM LPARs with virtual SCSI devices
- Using Storage Foundation in the logical partition (LPAR) with virtual SCSI devices
- Using Storage Foundation with virtual SCSI devices
- Setting up DMP for vSCSI devices in the logical partition (LPAR)
- About disabling DMP for vSCSI devices in the logical partition (LPAR)
- Preparing to install or upgrade Storage Foundation with DMP disabled for vSCSI devices in the logical partition (LPAR)
- Disabling DMP multi-pathing for vSCSI devices in the logical partition (LPAR) after installation or upgrade
- Adding and removing DMP support for vSCSI devices for an array
- How DMP handles I/O for vSCSI devices
- Using VCS with virtual SCSI devices
- Physical to virtual migration (P2V)
- Section IV. Reference
About migration from Physical to VIO environment
Veritas has qualified migration of storage that is used by Storage Foundation from the physical environment to IBM VIO environment.
Storage Foundation provides the PDC (Portable Data Container) feature, which enables migrating storage from other platforms (Solaris, HP-UX, or Linux) to AIX VIO environment. You can also use PDC feature to migrate the storage consumed by a AIX physical server to a AIX VIO environment. NPIV helps you migrate the applications along with storage from a AIX physical environment to AIX VIO environment and vice-versa.
When storage is consumed by SF, Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) initializes the storage LUNs as CDS (Cross-platform Data Sharing) type disks by default. A CDS disk group can be imported in a VIO client which has access to LUN's that are mapped through VFC Adapter on the client.
As part of the migration qualification, an application's storage is migrated from physical server to VIO environment (VIO client 1) which has NPIV capable FC adapter connected to it. This allows the application to access the storage in VIO client 1. With NPIV capable FC adapter at VIOS, the devices presented to the VIO client would appear as regular AIX hdisk devices. Figure: SF migration from a physical environment to AIX VIO environment shows this migration.
Migration is an offline task.