PRIMECLUSTER Installation and Administration Guide 4.5

Appendix H Using PRIMECLUSTER in a VMware Environment

This appendix explains how to use PRIMECLUSTER in a VMware environment.

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For details on VMware, see the documentation for VMware.

Note

Supported configuration

• The following environments and functions are not supported:

  • Cluster configuration between ESXi hosts with different versions

  • N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV)

• Support for multipath software from third parties, contact field engineers.

Using VMware functions

• The following functions are not available in a virtual machine in which PRIMECLUSTER is to be installed.

  • Migration with VMware vCenter Converter

  • Snapshot of VMware

  • Backup by Data Protection

• Following hot swap operations cannot be performed for the virtual machine hardware.

  • Increasing disk size

  • Increasing memory

  • Increasing CPU

  • Using snapshot

  • Over committing of memory that causes virtual swap or memory ballooning