Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.1 Virtualization Guide - AIX
- Section I. Overview
- Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions in AIX PowerVM virtual environments
- Section II. Implementation
- Setting up Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions in AIX PowerVM virtual environments
- Supported configurations for Virtual I/O servers (VIOS) on AIX
- Installing and configuring Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions in the logical partition (LPAR)
- Installing and configuring Cluster Server for logical partition and application availability
- Supported configurations for Virtual I/O servers (VIOS) on AIX
- Setting up Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions in AIX PowerVM virtual environments
- Section III. Use cases for AIX PowerVM virtual environments
- Application to spindle visibility
- Simplified storage management in VIOS
- Configuring Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) on Virtual I/O server
- Configuring Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) pseudo devices as virtual SCSI devices
- Extended attributes in VIO client for a virtual SCSI disk
- Virtual machine (logical partition) availability
- Simplified management and high availability for IBM Workload Partitions
- Implementing Storage Foundation support for WPARs
- How Cluster Server (VCS) works with Workload Patitions (WPARs)
- Configuring VCS in WPARs
- High availability and live migration
- Limitations and unsupported LPAR features
- Multi-tier business service support
- Server consolidation
- About IBM Virtual Ethernet
- Using Storage Foundation in the logical partition (LPAR) with virtual SCSI devices
- How DMP handles I/O for vSCSI devices
- Physical to virtual migration (P2V)
- Section IV. Reference
Virtualization use cases addressed by Veritas InfoScale products
Use cases where Veritas InfoScale product components can improve the PowerVM environment:
Table: Virtualization use cases addressed by Veritas InfoScale products in a PowerVM environment
Virtualization use case | Veritas solution | Use case implementation details |
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Simplified management | Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) in the host | Configuring a Virtual I/O server for simplified management: how to manage virtual machines using the same command set, storage namespace, and environment as in a non-virtual environment: |
Application management and availability | Cluster Server (VCS) in the LPAR | How to manage application availability. |
Virtual machine management and availability | VCS in the LPAR | How to manage virtual machine high availability (LPAR failover and migration). |
Simplified management and high availability for IBM Workload partitions | VCS in the LPAR | Setting up Workload Partitions (WPARs) for operating system virtualization to reduce operating system images, and simplify management. See About using IBM Workload Partitions (WPARs) with Veritas InfoScale products. |
Live Migration | SFCFSHA and SF for Oracle RAC in the LPAR | How to use Live Partition Mobility for greater control over the usage of resources in the data center and for planned maintenance. See Providing high availability with live migration in a Cluster Server environment. |
Multi-tier Business service support | Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager, VBS in the LPAR | How to visualize, orchestrate and provide availability for multi-tier business applications. |
Server consolidation | SFHA or SFCFSHA in the LPAR | How to consolidate workloads from multiple physical servers to a physical server with virtual machines. |
Physical to virtual migration | SFHA or SFCFSHA in the LPAR | How to migrate data from physical to virtual clients safely and easily with NPIV. |