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
Resizing devices
Red Hat Linux Enterprise (RHEL) 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, and 7 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP2 and SP3 do not support online disk re-sizing of VirtIO devices. To re-size a VirtIO device, the guest must be fully shut down and re-started.
You can use the following methods to resize the devices.
To grow devices
- Grow the storage.
If the storage device is a VxVM Volume, re-size the volume.
If the storage device is a LUN from a storage array, re-size the device on the array.
- Update the size of the disk device in the host.
Stop all virtual machines using the storage device.
If the device is a LUN from a storage array, update the size of the device:
# blockdev --rereadpt device
Restart the virtual machines.
- Update the size of the storage device in the guest .
If VxVM is managing the storage in the guest, use the vxdisk resize command.
If VxVM is not managing the storage in the guest, see the appropriate documentation.
To shrink devices
- Update the size of the disk device in the guest.
If VxVM is managing the device in the guest, if necessary, first use the vxresize utility to shrink any file systems and volumes which are using the device. Use the vxresize utility to update the size of the public region of the device:
# vxdisk resize access_name length=new_size
If VxVM is not managing the storage in the guest, see the appropriate documentation.
- Shrink the storage in the guest.
If the device is a VxVM volume, shrink the volume with the vxassist utility.
If the device is a LUN from a storage array, shrink the device on storage array.
- Update the size of the disk device in the host.
Stop the guests which are using the devices.
If the device is a LUN from a storage array, use the following command:
# blockdev --rereadpt device
- Start the guests.