Using HP Serviceguard for Linux with Red Hat KVM Guests, May 2013

Technical white paper | Using HP Serviceguard for Linux with Red Hat KVM Guests
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About this technical white paper
Virtual machine technology is a powerful capability that can reduce costs and
power usage while improving utilization of resources. HP is also applying
virtualization to other aspects of the data center and uniting virtual and
physical resources to create an environment suitable for deploying
mission-critical applications.
HP Serviceguard for Linux is certified for deployment on Red Hat kernel-based
virtual machine (KVM) guests. This white paper discusses the different ways in
which a KVM guest can be integrated in a Serviceguard for Linux cluster. It
describes how a Serviceguard for Linux cluster can be configured using KVM
guests from a single host, KVM guests from multiple hosts and a combination
of KVM guests and physical machines, so as to provide high availability
for applications.
The white paper provides details on supported Red Hat hypervisor, guest OS,
network topology, network device models and storage configurations. It also
makes recommendations for eliminating single points of failure and provides
pointers to other useful documents.
Note
HP Serviceguard for Linux does not support KVM guests carved out of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor (RHEV) as
cluster nodes.