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
- 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
- How DMP works
- Improving data protection, storage optimization, data migration, and database performance
- Protecting data with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Optimizing storage 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 setting up Storage Foundation Cluster File High System High Availability on VMware ESXi
- Configuring coordination point (CP) servers
- Section IV. Reference
Use cases for Veritas InfoScale product components in a VMware guest
Veritas InfoScale product components provide many features for enhancing storage in a VMware environment. You can use the InfoScale products for data protection, storage optimization, ease of data migration, and optimized performance.
Using the InfoScale product in VMware guest enables the following use cases:
Table: Storage Foundation support for VMware environment use cases
Virtualization use case | Veritas InfoScale product component | Implementation details |
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Data protection | Storage Foundation or SFHA in the guest | How to use Storage Foundation point-in-time copy features for data protection. See Protecting data with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest. |
Storage optimization | Storage Foundation or SFHA in the guest | How to use Storage Foundation thin provisioning, SmartTier, and SmartIO features to optimize storage in a VMware environment. See Optimizing storage with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest. |
Data migration | Storage Foundation or SFHA in the guest | How to use Storage Foundation Portable Data Containers to migrate data safely and easily in a VMware guest environment. See Migrating data with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest. |
Improved database performance | Storage Foundation or SFHA in the guest | How to use Storage Foundation database accelerators to improve database performance in a VMware guest environment. See Improving database performance with Veritas InfoScale product components in the VMware guest. |
Simplified storage management with Storage Foundation or SFHA | Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) in the hypervisor and Storage Foundation or SFHA in the guest | How to use DMP for VMware and Storage Foundation features for end-to-end storage visibility, performance, optimization, and enhanced ease of management. |