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InfoScale™ Virtual Business Services - Availability User's Guide
Last Published:
2025-09-09
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: AIX,Linux,Solaris,Windows
- Overview of Virtual Business Services
- About Virtual Business Services
- Features of Virtual Business Services
- Sample virtual business service configuration
- VMware virtualization support prerequisites for InfoScale Operations Manager Virtual Business Services
- About the InfoScale Operations Manager policy checks for Virtual Business Services
- Supported operating systems for Virtual Business Services
- Internationalization (I18N) support
- Installing and configuring Virtual Business Services
- About Virtual Business Services components
- Virtual Business Services workflow
- Support matrix for VBS
- Prerequisites for Configuring VBS
- Installing the Virtual Business Services package using InfoScale Operations Manager
- Configuring a virtual business service
- Considerations for creating a virtual business service
- Creating virtual business services
- Editing virtual business services
- Deleting virtual business services
- Virtual Business Services daemon
- Communication among VBS daemons
- Auto discovery of VBS Daemon on each cluster
- Configuring auto discovery for each cluster in VBS
- Configuring dependencies for a virtual business service
- Configure Virtual Business Service dependencies - Specify service group dependencies panel options
- Link Service Groups panel options
- Unlink Service Groups panel options
- Specify Script Execution details panel options
- Configure Virtual Business Service dependencies - Specify VMs start or stop panel options
- Managing Microsoft Failover Clustering from VBS
- Uninstalling the VRTSvbs package
- Uninstalling VBS from Microsoft Failover Clusters
- Virtual Business Services operations
- Starting and stopping Virtual Business Services
- Viewing the information on a Virtual Business Service
- Viewing Virtual Business Services in the data center
- Viewing the service groups associated with Virtual Business Services
- Viewing the clusters associated with virtual business services
- Viewing the virtual business services status from the command line
- Viewing the information on a virtual business service in the Server perspective
- Viewing the dependency associated with Virtual Business Services in the Server perspective
- Viewing the dependency associated with Virtual Business Services
- Viewing the properties of a virtual business service
- Viewing application recovery point and startup time of a VBS
- Tracking VBS operations
- Logs of a virtual business service
- Fault management for a virtual business service
- Virtual Business Services security
- Fault management in Virtual Business Services
- Disaster recovery in Virtual Business Services
- About disaster recovery for Virtual Business Services
- Prerequisites
- Sample disaster recovery configuration
- Disaster recovery alerts
- Disaster recovery limitations
- About the disaster recovery plan
- Bringing up Virtual Business Services at the DR site
- Performing planned migration of virtual business services
- Concurrency violation
- Upgrading Virtual Business Services
- Appendix A. Command reference
- Appendix B. Troubleshooting and recovery
- Appendix C. Known issues and limitations
- Known issues and limitations
- Complete cluster fault is not handled
- Fault propagation for shared service groups
- Propagation of multiple child fault or recovery events may be missed if fault action on parent service group is in progress (2745323)
- ClusterService group having vbsapp resource does not link vbsapp to newly created gcoip (2713002)
- CLI command returns incorrect state of the virtual machine in VBS (2789621)
- VBS dependencies get deleted during the upgrade of SFWHA configured in a VBS [2832599]
- VBS start operation may fail from InfoScale Operations Manager when VM start/stop is enabled [2848118]
- Clusters running on SFWHA 5.1SP1 or 5.1SP2 configured with virtual IP addresses cannot migrate to VIP-less communication (2845412)
- Pop up showing error message during VBS uninstallation on Windows remains hidden behind other windows (2872716)
- Events generated for VBSD lack correct description (2833160)
- DR fails to start in VBS 9.0 or lower for VBS formed of global service groups [3240419]
- Installation or upgrade of VRTSsfmh or VRTSvbs package from InfoScale Operations Manager may fail if publisher is set (3306997)
- Operation performed on service groups with disabled resources remains stuck or fails by timing out [3280718, 3288725]
- Recover and takeover messages are not displayed during DR of a VBS with a global service group [3315435]
- Known issues and limitations
Supported operating systems for Virtual Business Services
Table: Supported software lists the software supported for Virtual Business Services.
Refer to the Software Compatibility List (SCL) for the most recent supported operating systems and applications:
Table: Supported software
Category | Platform | Version |
|---|---|---|
Operating system | Solaris on SPARC | 10 U9, U10, U11 11 U1 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 5 Update 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 6 Update 3, 4, 5 7 | |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) | 11 SP2, SP3 | |
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 | Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 U5, U6, U7, U8, U9, U10 | |
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 | Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 U3, U4, U5 | |
AIX on Power6, and AIX on Power7 | 6.1 TL6, TL7, TL8 7.1 TL0, TL1, TL2 | |
Windows | Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows Server 2012 | |
Storage Foundation and High Availability for UNIX | Linux, Solaris, AIX | 5.1 5.1SP1 with latest PR or RP 6.0 6.0.1 6.1 6.2 |
Storage Foundation and High Availability for Windows | Windows | 5.1SP1, 5.1SP2 6.0 6.0.1 6.1 |
Supported Windows and Linux guest operating systems on VMware Supported KVM, LPAR, and Oracle VM Server for SPARC (formerly LDOM) guest operating systems | 6.0 6.1 6.2 |