Using HP Serviceguard for Linux with VMware

Requirements, Guidelines, and Support Information

Requirements:

• Configure NIC teaming at the host level for networks that will be used for applications. Use

teamed NICs in VM data networks. Teamed NICs may be used for heartbeat links as well.

• Synchronize time of all ESX hosts.

• Install VMware guest tools on all VMs and select the time synchronization option.

• Use Raw Device Mapping (RDM) to attach shared LUNs to virtual machines.

• On RedHat 4 Update 5 and RedHat 5, install the sg3_utils rpm provided in the distribution

CD (for example sg3_utils-1.22-3.1.i386.rpm for an x86 platform.

• Make sure that the shared storage system supports persistent reservation.

• Configure packages using the package control script or modules from A.11.18.02 to later

patches of A.11.18.

o For modular style packages, change the default value of the attribute sglx_vm to on

o For legacy packages, set SGLX_VM="on" in the package control script.

Recommendations:

• Enable beacon monitoring for teamed NICs

Support Information:

• The combination of VMware HA and Serviceguard for Linux running in guests has not been

tested and is not supported.

• Serviceguard running on ESX server 3.0.1 has not been tested and is not supported.

• Vmotion is not supported on Serviceguard cluster nodes.

• The vminfo command is fully supported.