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.
SFHA 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.SFHA 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.
NetApp snapmirror resource not getting online with VCS integration
Dear All, I would like to have some help to identify following error while onlining a NetApp SnapMirror agent that was intergrated with VCS. The filer name and its credential s were given properly and even i can able to ssh it from the servers but for some reason the resource is not getting online and shows following error in the engine.log 2014/09/30 15:02:44 VCS WARNING V-16-20059-1002 (node)NetAppSnapMirror:testSM:online:Encountered errors while decrypting password! 2014/09/30 15:02:44 VCS ERROR V-16-20059-1000 (node11) NetAppSnapMirror:testSM:online:ONTAPI 'system-get-version' failed on filer node1.sys Error : in Zapi::invoke, cannot connect to socket Actually i am doing global Clustering configuration where i have two node cluster and a filer at primary site, In dr i have a single node cluster and a filer. the replication is async. Any support highly appreacited. Thanks. Uvi.