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 configuration options for a KVM 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 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
InfoScale configuration options for a KVM environment
The following table lists the configurations that InfoScale products support in a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) environment. The table also lists the minimum required InfoScale configurations to achieve the corresponding storage and availability objectives. You can mix and match the use of InfoScale components and solutions as needed to achieve the desired level of storage visibility, management, replication support using Volume Replicator (VVR), availability, and cluster failover for your KVM hosts and guest VMs.
Table: Supported configuration options in a KVM environment
Objective | Recommended InfoScale configuration |
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Storage visibility for KVM guest VMs | Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) in the KVM guest VMs |
Storage visibility for KVM hosts | DMP in the KVM hosts |
Storage management features and replication support using VVR for KVM guest VMs | Storage Foundation (SF) in the KVM guest VMs |
Advanced storage management features and replication support using VVR for KVM hosts | Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFSHA) in the KVM hosts |
End-to-end storage visibility in KVM hosts and guest VMs | DMP in the KVM host and guest VMs |
Storage management features and replication support using VVR in the KVM guest VMs and storage visibility in the KVM host | DMP in the KVM host and SFHA in the KVM guest VMs See DMP in the KVM host and SFHA in the KVM guest virtual machine. |
VM monitoring, migration, and failover for KVM hosts | Cluster Server (VCS) in the KVM hosts See VCS in the KVM host. |
Application failover for KVM guest VMs | VCS in the KVM guest VMs See VCS in the guest. |
Application failover across KVM guest VMs and physical hosts | VCS in KVM guest VMs and KVM physical hosts See VCS in a cluster across virtual machine guests and physical machines. |