Veritas InfoScale™ 8.0 Virtualization Guide - Linux
- Section I. Overview of Veritas InfoScale Solutions used in Linux virtualization
- Overview of supported products and technologies
- About Veritas InfoScale Solutions support for Linux virtualization environments
- About Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) technology
- About the RHEV environment
- Overview of supported products and technologies
- Section II. Implementing a basic KVM environment
- Getting started with basic KVM
- Veritas InfoScale Solutions configuration options for the kernel-based virtual machines environment
- Installing and configuring Cluster Server in a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) environment
- Configuring KVM resources
- Getting started with basic KVM
- Section III. Implementing Linux virtualization use cases
- Application visibility and device discovery
- Server consolidation
- Physical to virtual migration
- Simplified management
- Application availability using Cluster Server
- Virtual machine availability
- Virtual machine availability for live migration
- Virtual to virtual clustering in a Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment
- Virtual to virtual clustering in a Microsoft Hyper-V environment
- Virtual to virtual clustering in a Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) environment
- Disaster recovery for virtual machines in the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment
- Disaster recovery of volumes and file systems using Volume Replicator (VVR) and Veritas File Replicator (VFR)
- Multi-tier business service support
- Managing Docker containers with InfoScale Enterprise
- About the Cluster Server agents for Docker, Docker Daemon, and Docker Container
- Managing storage capacity for Docker containers
- Offline migration of Docker containers
- Disaster recovery of volumes and file systems in Docker environments
- Application visibility and device discovery
- Section IV. Reference
- Appendix A. Troubleshooting
- Appendix B. Sample configurations
- Appendix C. Where to find more information
- Appendix A. Troubleshooting
Creating and launching a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) host
KVM is available as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Management for RHEL KVM is provided through separate RPMs that can be downloaded into the standard RHEL installation. Management for SLES KVM is provided through SLES or through separate RPMs that can be downloaded into the standard SLES installation.
The virt-manager tool provides a very simple, easy-to-use and intuitive GUI interface for all virtual machine operations, along with virt-viewer. A command line alternative, virsh, also provides a shell that can be used to create and manage virtual machines using a rich set of commands. The features provided by these tools include taking snapshots of virtual machines, creating virtual networks and live migration of virtual machines to another KVM host.
Once you have configured the required hardware setup:
Install KVM on the target systems.
Create and launch the required KVM virtual machines.
Proceed to install the required SFHA product on the guest or host:
See Installing Veritas InfoScale Solutions in the kernel-based virtual machine environment.
See Installing and configuring Cluster Server in a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) environment.