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Veritas InfoScale™ 8.0 Virtualization Guide - Linux

Last Published: 2021-12-21

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (8.0)

Platform: Linux

How to implement physical to virtual migration (P2V)

Migrating data from a physical server to a virtualized guest, the LUNs are first physically connected to the host, and then the LUNs are mapped in KVM from the host to the guest.

This use case procedure is very similar to the server consolidation use case and the procedures are quite similar. Physical to virtual migration is the process used to achieve server consolidation.

This use case requires Storage Foundation HA or Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA in the KVM host and Storage Foundation in the KVM guest. For setup information:

See Installing Veritas InfoScale Solutions in the kernel-based virtual machine environment.

There are three options:

If Veritas InfoScale Solutions products are installed on both the physical server and the virtual host, identifying the LUNs which need mapping is made easy. Once the LUNs are connected to the virtual host, 'vxdisk - o alldgs list' can be used to identify the devices in the disk group which require mapping.
If Veritas InfoScale Solutions products are not installed on the virtual host and the physical server is a Linux system, the devices which need mapping can be identified by using the device IDs on the physical server.
If Veritas InfoScale Solutions products are installed only on the physical server and the SF administration utility for RHEV, vxrhevadm, is installed on the RHEV-M machine, you can identify the exact DMP device mapping on the guest. However, for volume and file system mappings, run heuristics to identify exact device mappings on the host.

To implement physical to virtual migration with Storage Foundation in the host and guest (KVM-only)

Find the Linux device IDs of the devices which need mapping.
```
# vxdg list diskgroup
```

For each disk in the disk group:

# vxdmpadm getsubpaths dmpnodename=device
# ls -al /dev/disk/by-id/* | grep subpath

If Storage Foundation is not installed on the host, before decommissioning the physical server, identify the LUNs which require mapping by using the devices serial numbers. The LUNs can be mapped to the guest using the persistent "by-path" device links.

To implement physical to virtual migration if Storage Foundation is not installed in the host (KVM-only)

On the physical server, identify the LUNs which must be mapped on the KVM host using the udevadm command.

Map the LUNs to the virtualization host.

The udev database can be used to identify the devices on the host which need to be mapped.

# udevadm info --export-db | grep '/dev/disk/by-path' | \
																	cut -d' ' -f4 

/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:05:00.0-fc-0x5006016239a01884-lun-1
/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:05:00.0-fc-0x5006016239a01884-lun-2

Map the LUNs to the guest. As there are multiple paths in this example, the paths sym-link can be used to ensure consistent device mapping for all four paths.

# virsh attach-disk guest1 \
/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:05:00.0-fc-0x5006016239a01884-lun-1 \
      vdb
# virsh attach-disk guest1 \
/dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:05:00.0-fc-0x5006016239a01884-lun-2 \
      vdc

Verify that the devices are correctly mapped to the guest. The configuration changes can be made persistent by redefining the guest.
```
# virsh dumpxml guest1 > /tmp/guest1.xml
# virsh define /tmp/guest1.xm
```

To implement physical to virtual migration with Storage Foundation in the guest and host (KVM-only)

Map the LUNs to the virtualization host.

On the virtualization host, identify the devices which require mapping. For example, the devices with the disk group data_dg are mapped to guest1.

# vxdisk -o alldgs list |grep data_dg
3pardata0_1  auto:cdsdisk    -            (data_dg)    online
3pardata0_2  auto:cdsdisk    -            (data_dg)    online

Map the devices to the guest.

# virsh attach-disk guest1 /dev/vx/dmp/3pardata0_1 vdb
Disk attached successfully

# virsh attach-disk guest1 /dev/vx/dmp/3pardata0_2 vdc
Disk attached successfully

In the guest, verify that all devices are correctly mapped and that the disk group is available.

# vxdisk scandisks
# vxdisk -o alldgs list |grep data_dg
3pardata0_1  auto:cdsdisk    -            (data_dg)    online
3pardata0_2  auto:cdsdisk    -            (data_dg)    online

In the virtualization host make the mapping persistent by redefining the guest:
```
# virsh dumpxml guest1 > /tmp/guest1.xml
# virsh define /tmp/guest1.xml
```

To implement physical to virtual migration with Storage Foundation only in the guest and the SF administration utility for RHEV, vxrhevadm, on the RHEV Manager

Map the LUNs to the virtualization host.
On the virtualization host, identify the devices which require mapping. For example, the devices with the disk group data_dg are mapped to guest1.
```
# vxdisk list -guest1 <data_dg> DMP nodes
# vxprint  -guest1 <data_dg> -v, volume
# vxfs,  file created on vxfs filesystem  
```

2. Attach each entity to respective virtual machines.

# ./vxrhevadm -p <password> -n <VM name> -d <dmpnode> attach
Attached a dmp node to the specified virtual machine

#  ./vxrhevadm -p <password> -n <VM name> -v <volume> attach
Attached a volume device to the specified virtual machine

# ./vxrhevadm  -p <password> -n <VM name> -f <file>:raw attach
Attached a file system  device to the specified virtual machine

Power up the guest virtual machine and verify that the SCSI disks are available in the guest virtual machine.
Note:
The XML dumps available in the /var/log/vdsm/vdsm.log is a hint about device mappings. For DMP nodes, enable persistent naming in the host to identify the device mapping in the guest. For volume and file system mappings, run heuristics to identify device mappings in the guest.

To use a Veritas Volume Manager volume as a boot device when configuring a new virtual machine

Follow the recommended steps in your Linux virtualization documentation to install and boot a VM guest.
When requested to select managed or existing storage for the boot device, use the full path to the VxVM storage volume block device, for example /dev/vx/dsk/boot_dg/bootdisk-vol.
If using the virt-install utility, enter the full path to the VxVM volume block device with the --disk parameter, for example, --disk path=/dev/vx/dsk/boot_dg/bootdisk-vol.

To use a Storage Foundation component as a boot device when configuring a new virtual machine

Follow the recommended steps in your Linux virtualization documentation to install and boot a VM guest.
When requested to select managed or existing storage for the boot device, use the full path to the VxVM storage volume block device, file system device, or DMP node.
For example /dev/vx/dsk/boot_dg/bootdisk-vol
Likewise, /dev/vx/dsk/boot_dg/bootdisk-file, or /dev/vx/dsk/boot_dg/bootdisk-dmpnode.
In the RHEV Manager advanced settings for virtual machines, select the boot option and attach the appropriate ISO image.
Attach the DMP node, volume block device, or file system device as the boot option.
# /opt/VRTSrhevm/bin/vxrhevadm -p \
<rhevm-password> -n <vmname> -d <dmpnode-path> attach
# /opt/VRTSrhevm/bin/vxrhevadm -p \
<rhevm-password> -n <vmname> -v <volume-path> attach
# /opt/VRTSrhevm/bin/vxrhevadm -p \
<rhevm-password> -n <vmname> -f <file-path:raw> | <file-path:qcow2> attach
Start the guest virtual machine and boot from ISO.
Install OS on the SF entity appearing as a SCSI device. Install bootloader on the SCSI device itself.
Power off the guest virtual machine.
Configure the host to boot from hard disk in guest virtual machine settings.
Power on the guest to book from the configured SF component.