Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) Solutions are supported in an HP Integrity Virtual Machine (IVM) environment. An HP IVM is a hosted hypervisor virtualization technology within the HP Virtual Server Environment. This environment enables you to create multiple virtual servers with shared resources within a single HP Integrity server or nPartition.
For more information about HP IVMs, see:
About HP Integrity Virtual Machines
Before you configure HP IVMs, you may find it helpful to review the following terminology:
HP Integrity Virtual Machines terminology
Symantec supports Veritas Storage Foundation (SF) and Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) in an HP IVM environment. Symantec does not support Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC in an HP IVM environment.
For more information, see:
Supported Storage Foundation and HP IVM versions
Supported VCS and IVM versions
SF supports the following configurations using IVM:
- SF on VMGuest only
- SF on VMHost only
- SF on both VMGuest and VMHost
For more information about supported Storage Foundation configurations using IVM, see:
Storage Foundation supported configurations using IVM
SFHA supports the following configurations using IVM:
- Cluster among VMGuests (VM-VM) (VM: Virtual Machine)
- Cluster among VMGuests and physical machines (VM-PM)
- Cluster among VMHosts (PM-PM) (PM: Physical Machine)
For more information about supported SFHA configurations using IVM, see:
Storage Foundation High Availability supported configurations using IVM
Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) is supported only on the VMGuest.
For more information about supported SFCFSHA configurations using IVM, see:
Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability supported configurations using IVM
For a table of all supported configurations, see:
Supported configurations using IVM
Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability documentation for other releases and platforms can be found on the SORT website.
