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
About setting up logical partitions (LPARs) with Veritas InfoScale products
Before setting up your virtual environment, verify that your planned configuration will meet the system requirements, licensing and other considerations for installation with Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions products.
Licensing: Storage Foundation or Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability in an LPAR may be licensed either by licensing the entire server (for an unlimited number of LPARs) or licensing the maximum number of processors cores assigned to that LPAR.
IBM Power virtualization requirements: See IBM documentation.
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: IBM Power Virtualization system requirements
IBM Power Virtualization requirement | Description |
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Supported architecture | Power PC |
Minimum system requirements | No specific requirements. See the Release Notes for your product. |
Recommended system requirements |
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IBM documentation for more information | See the IBM documentation. |
Table: Veritas product requirements
Veritas product requirement | Description |
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Hardware | Full virtualization-enabled CPU |
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Supported OS version in LPAR | See the Veritas product Release Notes. |
Supported OS management LPAR | See the Veritas product Release Notes. |
Storage |
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Networking |
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Documentation: see the product release notes for the most current system requirements, limitations, and known issues: |
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Installation, patching, and configuration requirements: | Veritas strongly recommends that you use Veritas InfoScale products 7.4.1 with the latest patches. No other configuration is required. Refer to the following website for the latest patches for Storage Foundation 7.4.1 on AIX: |
To use VCS to manage LPARs as virtual machines, the following requirements must be met.
Table: VCS system requirements for the LPAR-supported configurations
VCS requirement | Description |
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VCS version | 6.0 and later |
Supported OS version in LPARs | AIX 7.1 TL4 AIX 7.2 TL0, TL1 |
Supported VIOS version | 2.1.3.10-FP-23 and above |
Supported HMC version | 7.2.0.0 Note: Best practice: all the physical servers that are part of a cluster are managed by the same HMC. |
Supported hardware | Power 6, 7, or 8 |
Table: N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) requirements
NPIV requirement | Description |
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NPIV support | Included with PowerVM Express, Standard, and Enterprise Edition and supports AIX 7.1 and AIX 7.2. |
VIO requirements | NPIV requires a minimum of Power6 systems, VIOS 2.1, and 8GB HBA adapters. NPIV also requires NPIV aware switches. The end storage devices need not be NPIV aware. |
Hardware requirements | NPIV requires extended functionality on the HBA. Currently IBM sells this as an 8GB HBA, part number XXXXX. The SAN Switch ports must also support NPIV as well, Brocade and Cisco make products that provide this functionality. |
Information for NPIV and how to configure an IBM VIO environment | See IBM documentation. |
Installation, patching, and configuration requirements for NPIV support:
No patches are needed at the time of release. No other configuration is required.
Using 7.4.1 products with the latest patches when they become available is strongly recommended.
For current information on patches, see:
You can use Cluster Server (VCS) by Veritas in a IBM PowerVM virtualization environment to provide mission-critical clustering and failover capabilities.
See About IBM LPARs with N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV).