InfoScale™ 9.0 Virtualization Guide - Linux
- Section I. Overview of InfoScale solutions used in Linux virtualization
- Overview of supported products and technologies
- About InfoScale support for Linux virtualization environments
- About KVM technology
- Overview of supported products and technologies
- Section II. Implementing a basic KVM environment
- Getting started with basic KVM
- InfoScale solutions configuration options for the kernel-based virtual machines environment
- Installing and configuring VCS in a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) environment
- Configuring KVM resources
- Getting started with basic KVM
- Section III. Implementing InfoScale an OpenStack environment
- Section IV. 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 Hyper-V environment
- Virtual to virtual clustering in an OVM environment
- 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
- Section V. Reference
- Appendix A. Troubleshooting
- Appendix B. Sample configurations
- Appendix C. Where to find more information
- Appendix A. Troubleshooting
About managing Docker containers with InfoScale Enterprise
You can deploy and manage Docker containers that host applications by leveraging the storage management and high availability features of InfoScale Enterprise. The File System (VxFS) and Volume Manager (VxVM) components of InfoScale Enterprise provide storage management capabilities to manage Docker containers. The Cluster Server agent for Docker provides high availability to the Docker daemon and the Docker containers. If a node goes down or during system outage, the agent fails over the Docker daemon and the Docker container to another node in the cluster.
You can use InfoScale Enterprise to replicate and migrate Docker containers. The Volume Replicator (VVR) and File Replicator (VFR) components of InfoScale Enterprise provide this replication capability. Docker containers can be recovered across geographically distributed sites by configuring the Global Cluster Option (GCO) in Cluster Server (VCS) cluster deployments.
InfoScale Enterprise addresses the following use cases in Docker environments:
Scale storage capacity for containers
Manage data for containers
Migrate containers
Provide high availability (HA) for containers
Provide disaster recovery (DR) for containers