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
- About InfoScale deployments in OpenShift Virtualization environments
- 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 the Cluster Server agents for Docker, Docker Daemon, and Docker Container
The Cluster Server (VCS) agents monitor specific resources within an enterprise application. They determine the status of resources and start or stop them according to external events. The Cluster Server agents for Docker Daemon and Docker Container provide high availability for Docker daemon and Docker containers in a cluster.
The Docker daemon provides the base infrastructure for creating and hosting Docker containers. The Docker Daemon can also perform storage-related operations such as creating volumes, mounting or unmounting file systems, removing volumes and other storage related activities. The Docker Daemon eases deployment of Docker Containers without the need to manually provision storage to containers. But, you can also choose to manually provision storage to Docker Containers.
The Docker Container agent monitors the Docker Container instances while they are online and offline. If the system fails, the agent detects failure and takes the container instances offline. Cluster Server initiates failover to another system in the cluster and the agent brings the container instances online.