Veritas InfoScale™ 7.4.1 Virtualization Guide - Linux on ESXi
- Section I. Overview
- About Veritas InfoScale solutions in a VMware environment
- Section II. Deploying Veritas InfoScale products in a VMware environment
- Getting started
- Understanding Storage Configuration
- Section III. Use cases for Veritas InfoScale product components in a VMware environment
- Application availability using Cluster Server
- Multi-tier business service support
- Improving storage visibility, availability, and I/O performance using Dynamic Multi-Pathing
- How DMP works
- Improving data protection, storage optimization, data migration, and database performance
- Protecting data with InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Optimizing storage with InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Migrating data with InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Improving database performance with InfoScale product components in the VMware guest
- Setting up virtual machines for fast failover using Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability on VMware disks
- About setting up Storage Foundation Cluster File High System High Availability on VMware ESXi
- Configuring coordination point (CP) servers
- Section IV. Reference
Installing Array Support Library (ASL) for VMDK on cluster nodes
In order for the cluster file system to work properly with the VMDK files, an ASL must be installed in the virtual server. The ASL package (VRTSaslapm) version that contains the VMDK ASL is 6.0.100.100.
Note:
Any future updates to the VMDK ASL will be published in http://sort.veritas.com and will have a higher revision than 6.0.100.100.
To download the ASL package
- Go to http://sort.veritas.com.
- Under Downloads, click ASL/APM/DDI/DDL.
- Select the ASL package by appropriately filtering the array information.
- Click Download in the Array Support Library (ASL)/Array Policy Module (APM) Details page.
On each clustered file system node, perform the following steps. The steps are illustrated with the example installation and your details may vary.
To install the ASL package
- To install the package, follow the instructions outlined in the Readme file (VRTSaslap_readme.txt) which is displayed towards the end of the Array Support Library (ASL)/Array Policy Module (APM) Details page.
You can also save this Readme file by selecting the Save As… option.
- Follow the steps outlined in the Installation Procedure section of the Readme.
In the case of the example installation, the version for RHEL 6.
After installing the ASL, you will notice that the disk has been renamed from disk_0 to vmdk0_0. Before ASL:
# vxdisk list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS disk_0 auto:none - - online invalid
After ASL has been deployed:
# vxdisk list
DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS
auto:none - - online invalidvmdk0_0 is the boot disk that is to be excluded from Volume Manger configuration.