2 Virtual-IO Manager - Introduction
2.7 High-Availability (HA) support
VIOM supports the following high-availability environment:
l Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster with ServerView Operations Man-
ager and ServerView Virtual-IO Manager installed on a virtual machine
with Windows Server operating system.
l VMware HA with ServerView Operations Manager and ServerView Vir-
tual-IO Manager installed on a virtual machine with Windows Server oper-
ating system.
This means that the ServerView management station is a virtual machine run-
ning on a Windows 2008 Hyper-V cluster or in a VMware HA environment.
High availability of Hyper-V cluster
The following Hyper-V high-availability configurations will be supported:
Operating system Admin server if HA
Guest
OS
Hypervisor
Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise (x86, x64) SP2
or higher
P
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Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard (x86, x64) SP2
or higher
P
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter [*]
P
P
[Hyper-V]
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise [*]
P
P
[Hyper-V]
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard [*]
P
P
[Hyper-V]
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