Veritas InfoScale 7.0 (Linux and Windows): Changes in Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware
With the introduction of the Veritas InfoScale 7.0 product family, Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) for VMware is now included as a component in the Veritas InfoScale Foundation, Storage, and Enterprise products. The license for this component is included as a part of the InfoScale license on both Linux and Windows. You can either use the Linux license or the Windows license to enable DMP functionality on the ESXi hypervisor. The DMP for VMware component consists of the following: vSphere offline DMP bundle — DMP components installed on the ESXi hypervisor vSphere UI plug-in — Installed on a Windows physical machine or on a virtual machine and serves as an interface between ESXi and vCenter Remote CLI package — Optional command-line interface to manage ESXi hosts from a Linux system or a Windows system The components can be installed using the command line or the VMware vSphere Update Manager. To install the Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware component on ESXi hosts, use one of the following: Veritas_InfoScale_Dynamic_Multi-Pathing_7.0_VMware.zip Veritas_InfoScale_Dynamic_Multi-Pathing_7.0_VMware.iso For more information on installing the DMP for VMware component, refer to the Dynamic Multi-Pathing 7.0 Installation Guide - VMware ESXi. From this release onwards: 1) DMP for VMware supports SanDisk (FusionIO) PCIe attached SSD cards. 2)TheDMP plug-in for the VMware vCenter web client: Displays I/O rate as a line graph. Displays the mapping of LUNs and VMDKs used by a virtual machine. Has a SmartPool tab for a virtual machine for easy configuration of SmartPool assigned to it. No longer requires ESXi login credentials in the Manage Device Support page. For more information about the features and enhancements, refer to the Dynamic Multi-Pathing 7.0 Administrator's Guide - VMware ESXi.756Views2likes1CommentSFHA 6.0.2: Configuring VCS on Linux guests in a VMware environment
Toensure failover of critical applications running inside virtual machines in a VMware environment, you must install Veritas Cluster Server 6.0.2 or later on the virtual machines (guests). VCS is distributed as part of the Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) stack of products. Prior to the 6.0.2 release, if you installed VCS in a VMware virtual environment, application failover could not co-exist with VMware vMotion. The limitation existed because application failover requires shared storage between failover systems, while vMotion does not support shared storage. VCS 6.0.2 introduces the VCS VMwareDisks agent which works around this limitation. The agent performs a storage disk attach-detach operation as required to support application failover on VCS cluster nodes. For more information on the VCS VMwareDisks agent: See the Storage agents section of the VCS Bundled Agents Reference Guide. Another important feature of VCS 6.0.2 for the VMware environment is that you can perform several VCS installation, configuration, and administrative tasks directly from your vSphere Client. Before you can perform the tasks from the vSphere Client, you must install the Symantec High Availability Console on an independent Windows system in your datacenter. When installed, the Symantec High Availability Console registers a plug-in with the vCenter Server. As a result, the Symantec High Availability tab appears in the vSphere Client Inventory view. You can perform most VCS tasks from the tab. To learn how to install the Symantec High Availability Console, see: Installing the Symantec High Availability Console For more information on the Symantec High Availability Console, see: Symantec Availability Console Installation Guide Symantec High Availability Console Readme You can perform the following tasks from the vSphere Client Symantec High Availability tab: Install VCS guest components Configure high availability of VCS service groups for Oracle database service groups using the Symantec High Availability wizard Configure high availability of VCS service groups for SAP Application Server using the Symantec High Availability wizard Configure high availability of VCS service groups for WebSphere MQ using the Symantec High Availability wizard Configure high availability of generic applications using the Symantec High Availability wizard Administer application availability The complete VCS 6.0.2 documentation set is available here, VCS documentation for other releases and platforms can be found on the SORT website.587Views2likes0CommentsSFHA Solutions 6.0.1: Configuring Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) in an Oracle VM Server for Solaris SPARC environment
Oracle VM Server for SPARC is a virtualization technology on the Solaris SPARC platform that enables you to create multiple virtual systems called logical domains (LDoms), on a single physical host. The virtualized computing environment is abstracted from all physical devices and allows you to centrally manage your workloads on a system. The logical domains can be assigned different roles such as control domain, service domain, I/O domain, and guest domain. Each domain is a full virtual machine where operating systems can be started, stopped, and rebooted independently. VCS uses the LDom agent to manage the Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domains. Storage agents such as Disk agent, DiskGroup agent, and Zpool agent can be used to manage storage services provided to a guest domain. Network agents such as the network interface card (NIC) agent can be used to manage networking services provided to the guest domain. VCS provides the following functions for LDoms: Enables logical domain availability in the host (control domain) Initiates external reboot (hard reboot) of guest domain Enables failover of the guest domain to another VCS node Responds to user-initiated guest domain migration Enables dynamic re-configuration of CPU and memory assigned to the guest domain Creates logical domain configuration from the configuration file Automatically synchronizes the domain configuration file across the cluster nodes For more information about VCS in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment: About Veritas Cluster Server in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment About Veritas Cluster Server configuration models in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domain migration in VCS environment Configuring VCS to manage a logical domain using services from multiple I/O domains Configuration scenarios For more information on configuring VCS in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment, see Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Virtualization Guide VCS documentation for other platforms and releases can be found on the SORT website.759Views2likes0CommentsVeritas Cluster Server 6.0 -- hauser -update
Dear All, I had added a new administrator user on vcs , like that, (#hauser -add clusteruser -pirv -Administrator ),but I cannotuse the command (#hauser -update),because doesnt have that option, Do you know how can I get a password? I am trying using Veritas Cluster Manager Java Console to manage the cluster. I am using VCS 6.0 on RedHat Linux 6.1. Thanks in advance AlejandroSolved1.5KViews2likes4CommentsCFS NFS configuration
Hello team, I'm trying to configure a CFS NFS HA service, so I've executed this command on the cluster: cfsshare config -p nfs apbasedg locks /locks and then configured all the shares. The cfsnfs_locks volume was already created and mounted on the vcs, but now it's not able to mount it anymore: cfsshare display VCS WARNING V-16-1-10260 Resource does not exist: cfsnfs_locks CNFS metadata filesystem : Protocols Configured : none #RESOURCE MOUNTPOINT PROTOCOL OPTIONS scs-ESP-nfsshare_ESPgoldclient /ESP/goldclient NFS scs-ESP-nfsshare_ESPusrsaptrans /ESP/usr/sap/trans NFS scs-ESP-nfsshare_sapmntESP /sapmnt/ESP NFS scs-ESP-nfsshare_userdataESP /userdata/ESP NFS #cfsmntadm display List of mount points registered with cluster-configurationbut not associated with any node : /locks # vxdisk -g apbasedg list DEVICE TYPE DISK GROUP STATUS vmdk0_10 auto:sliced apbasedg_0 apbasedg online shared this is the volume where the cfsnfs_locks volume is available v cnfs_locks fsgen ENABLED 2097152 - ACTIVE - - pl cnfs_locks-01 cnfs_locks ENABLED 2097152 - ACTIVE - - but I'm not able to mount the volume: # cfsmount /locks Error: V-35-33: cfsmount: Cluster mount /locks not associated with any node It worked at first, but now no more. Can you please help Thanks1.1KViews1like2CommentsSupport for Solaris branded Zones in VCS 6.0
The 5.1Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Virtualization Guide had a section: Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Branded Zones But this has been removed in 6.0, but the doc still says: Each chapter in this guide presents information on using a particular Oracle virtualization technology with Veritas products. These chapters follow: ■ Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Solaris Zones ■ Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Solaris Projects ■ Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions support for Branded Zones and on the next page it says Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Virtualization Solutions includes support for non-global and Branded zones, Projects, and Oracle VM Server for SPARC. But the 6.0 release notes say: Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 branded zones are no longer supported for SFHA configurations in this release. So as 6.0 does not support Solaris 11, I believe this means branded zones are not supported at all in 6.0 However, later patches to 6.0 support Solaris 11, which means Solaris 10 branded zones MAY be supported - can you please clarify. Mike645Views1like2CommentsSFHA Solutions 6.0.1: HP IVM support for Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability solutions
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.397Views1like0CommentsSFHA Solutions 6.0.1: About virtualization solutions for AIX environments
Virtualization technologies such as IBM PowerVM enable you to create isolated virtual environments or logical partitions on the same physical system. The virtualized computing environment can be abstracted from all physical devices. This enables you to consolidate and centrally manage your workloads on a system for greater flexibility and efficiency.Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions (SFHA Solutions) 6.0.1 supports AIX Virtual I/O Server (VIOS), logical partitions (LPARs), and the VIOS-based virtual environment. For more information on VIOS, LPARs, and the VIOS-based virtual enfironment, see: Introduction to AIX logical partition (LPAR) virtualization technology SFHA Solutions provide the following functionality for LPARs: Storage visibility Storage management Replication support High availability Disaster recovery For information on supported configurations for SFHA Solutions in VIOS environments, see: Supported configurations for Virtual I/O servers (VIOS) on AIX Supported use cases for SFHA Solutions in the VIOS environment include: Application management and availability Live partition mobility About migration from Physical to VIO environment Boot device management For implementation details for SFHA Virtualization Solutions, see: Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Virtualization Guide for AIX Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability documentation for other releases can be found on theSORT website.610Views1like0Comments