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
About setting up KVM with Veritas InfoScale Solutions
Before setting up your virtual environment, verify that your planned configuration will meet the system requirements, licensing and other considerations for installation with Veritas InfoScale Solutions products.
Licensing: customers running Storage Foundation (SF) or Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) in a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) environment are entitled to use an unlimited number of guests on each licensed server or CPU.
Red Hat and SUSE system requirements: see Table: Red Hat and SUSE system requirements
Veritas product requirements: see Table: Veritas product requirements
Release Notes: each Veritas product contains last minute news and important details for each product, including updates to system requirements and supported software. Review the Release Notes for the latest information before you start installing the product.
The product documentation is available on the Web at the following location:
Table: Red Hat and SUSE system requirements
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Hardware requirement | Full virtualization-enabled CPU | Full virtualization-enabled CPU |
Veritas InfoScale Solutions | Veritas InfoScale Solutions 8.0 | Veritas InfoScale Solutions 8.0 |
Supported OS version in the host | [KVM, RHEV] RHEL 7 Update 7, Update 8, Update 9 RHEL 8 Update 1 [KVM only] RHEL 7 Update 7, Update 8, Update 9 RHEL 8 Update 1 | SLES12 SP5 SLES15 SP1 |
Supported OS version in the virtual machine | [KVM, RHEV] RHEL 7 Update 7, Update 8, Update 9 RHEL 8 Update 1 [KVM only] RHEL 7 Update 7, Update 8, Update 9 RHEL 8 Update 1 | SLES12 SP5 SLES15 SP1 |
Table: Veritas product requirements
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Documentation: see the product release notes to for the most current system requirements, limitations, and known issues: |
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Table: VCS system requirements for KVM-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux configurations
VCS version | 8.0 |
Supported OS version in host | RHEL 7 Update 7 RHEL 7 Update 8 RHEL 7 Update 9 RHEL 8 Update 1 SLES 12 SP5 SLES 15 SP1 |
Supported OS in VM guest | RHEL 7 Update 7 RHEL 7 Update 8 RHEL 7 Update 9 RHEL 8 Update 1 SLES 12 SP5 SLES 15 SP1 |
Hardware requirement | Full virtualization-enabled CPU |
For more information on limitations and known issues, see the Veritas InfoScale Release Notes for Linux.
For KVM related limitations, see the Virtualization technology provider (RHEL or SLES) release notes.