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
How Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions works in the guest domains
The entire Storage Foundation stack is co-located within the guest in this deployment model.
Veritas 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 Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and DMP in this model. Non-SCSI devices (volume, file, slice, etc) are not supported.
Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions and Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability 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.
Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR) is supported in the guest-based Storage Foundation 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 Veritas Volume Manager volumes as boot disks for guest domains.