InfoScale™ 9.0 Virtualization Guide - Linux
- Section I. Overview of InfoScale solutions used in Linux virtualization
- Overview of supported products and technologies
- Overview of the InfoScale Virtualization Guide
- About InfoScale support for Linux virtualization environments
- About KVM technology
- About InfoScale deployments in OpenShift Virtualization environments
- About InfoScale deployments in OpenStack environments
- Virtualization use cases addressed by InfoScale
- About virtual-to-virtual (in-guest) clustering and failover
- Overview of supported products and technologies
- Section II. Implementing a basic KVM environment
- Getting started with basic KVM
- Creating and launching a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) host
- RHEL-based KVM installation and usage
- Setting up a kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) guest
- About setting up KVM with InfoScale solutions
- InfoScale configuration options for a KVM environment
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing in the KVM guest virtualized machine
- DMP in the KVM host
- SF in the virtualized guest machine
- Enabling I/O fencing in KVM guests
- SFCFSHA in the KVM host
- DMP in the KVM host and guest virtual machine
- DMP in the KVM host and SFHA in the KVM guest virtual machine
- VCS in the KVM host
- VCS in the guest
- VCS in a cluster across virtual machine guests and physical machines
- Installing InfoScale in 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
- About application availability options
- Cluster Server in a KVM environment architecture summary
- Virtual-to-virtual clustering and failover
- I/O fencing support for virtual-to-virtual clustering
- Virtual-to-physical clustering and failover
- Recommendations for improved resiliency of InfoScale clusters in virtualized environments
- 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 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
- Limitations while managing Docker containers
- Section V. Reference
- Appendix A. Troubleshooting
- InfoScale logs for CFS configurations in OpenStack environments
- Troubleshooting virtual machine live migration
- The KVMGuest resource may remain in the online state even if storage connectivity to the host is lost
- VCS initiates a virtual machine failover if a host on which a virtual machine is running loses network connectivity
- Appendix B. Sample configurations
- Appendix C. Where to find more information
- Appendix A. Troubleshooting
Virtualization use cases addressed by InfoScale
Arctera InfoScale™ supports the following virtualization environment use cases:
Table: Virtualization use cases addressed by InfoScale Solutions in a Linux environment
Virtualization use case | Recommended InfoScale products | Virtualization technology supported | Implementation details |
|---|---|---|---|
Server consolidation | SFHA or SFCFSHA in the guest | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) KVM SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) KVM Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization (OpenShift) Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V | How to run virtual machines as physical servers. See Server consolidation. |
Physical to virtual migration | SF in the host SFHA or SFCFSHA | RHEL KVM SLES KVM | How to migrate data from physical to virtual environments safely and easily. |
Simplified management | SFHA or SFCFSHA in the host | RHEL KVM SLES KVM OpenShift RHOSP | How to manage virtual machines using the same command set, storage namespace, and environment as in a non-virtual environment. |
Application failover | VCS or SFHA in the guest | RHEL KVM SLES KVM OpenShift RHOSP Linux on VMware ESXi Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V | How to manage application monitoring on virtual machines. How to manage application failover on virtual machines. See Cluster Server in a KVM environment architecture summary. |
Virtual-to-virtual (in-guest) clustering | VCS in the guest | RHEL KVM SLES KVM OpenShift RHOSP Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) Linux on VMware ESXi Linux on Microsoft Hyper-V | How to configure VCS for virtual-to-virtual clustering. See Installing and configuring Cluster Server with Microsoft Hyper-V virtual-to-virtual clustering. |
Virtual machine availability | VCS in the host | RHEL KVM SLES KVM OpenShift RHOSP | How to manage virtual machine failover. See VCS in host monitoring the Virtual Machine as a resource. |
Disaster recovery (DR) in the virtual environment | SFHA or SFCFSHA in the host | OpenShift | How to configure virtual machines for disaster recovery. How to configure SF as backend storage for virtual machines. How to enable use of SSDs or HDDs by leveraging Flexible Shared Storage (FSS) |
Application to storage visibility | Configuration for InfoScale Operations Manager use case | RHEL KVM SLES KVM Linux on VMware ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V | How to configure for storage to application visibility. See About storage to application visibility using InfoScale Operations Manager. |
Multi-tier Business service support | InfoScale Operations Manager, Virtual Business Service (VBS) | RHEL KVM SLES KVM | How to discover and configure devices for multi-tier application. See About KVM virtualization discovery in InfoScale Operations Manager. |