Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters - IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC

Contents

• Overview
  • Applicable Environments
  • Recommended Prior Reading
  • Useful References and Guides
  • Introduction
• Policies

Overview

Applicable Environments

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with the High Availability Add-On
• Using IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC to provide VMs that may serve as High Availability cluster members

Recommended Prior Reading

• General conditions with virtualized cluster members

Useful References and Guides

• Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters

Introduction

This guide offers Red Hat's policies, requirements, and limitations applicable to the use of IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC virtual machines as members of a RHEL High Availability cluster. Users of RHEL High Availability software components should adhere to these policies by installing only on the approved platforms in order to be eligible to receive assistance from Red Hat Support with the appropriate support subscriptions.

Policies

Consider general conditions for support of RHEL High Availability in virtualization environments

• See: General conditions with virtualized cluster members

IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC VMs as RHEL High Availability members: Red Hat only supports IBM Cloud Virtual Server for VPC VMs as RHEL High Availability members on the following version or when a particular package version is installed.

• RHEL 8.4.z: Errata RHBA-2022:4822 with the following package(s):fence-agents-4.2.1-65.el8_4.6 or later for RHEL 8.4.z.
• RHEL 8.5.z: There is no support for RHEL 8.5.z.
• RHEL 8.6 or later: Errata RHBA-2022:5330 with the following package(s): fence-agents-4.2.1-89.el8_6.2 or later.
• RHEL 9.1 or later: Errata RHBA-2022:7981 with the following package(s): fence-agents-common-4.10.0-30.el9, fence-agents-all-4.10.0-30.el9 or later.