An extended SVM selection algorithm may be applied only if you are using the application under an enterprise license.
If this algorithm is applied, you can specify how to determine SVM locality relative to Light Agent in the Light Agent policy, and specify whether or not Light Agents must take into the account SVM location in the virtual infrastructure when selecting SVM for connection.
In a virtual infrastructure running on the Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Hypervisor, VMware vSphere, KVM, Proxmox VE, Skala-R, HUAWEI FusionSphere, Nutanix Acropolis, ALT Virtualization Server or Astra Linux platform, an SVM is considered to be local for Light Agent in one of the following cases:
- SVM is deployed on the same hypervisor, as the virtual machine with the installed Light Agent.
- SVM is deployed on the same hypervisor cluster, as the virtual machine with the installed Light Agent.
- SVM is deployed in the same data center, as the virtual machine with the installed Light Agent.
In a virtual infrastructure running on the OpenStack platform, VK Cloud platform, or TIONIX Cloud Platform, an SVM can be considered as local for Light Agent in one of the following cases:
- SVM is located in the same server group, as the virtual machine with the installed Light Agent.
- SVM is deployed within the same OpenStack project, as the virtual machine with the installed Light Agent.
- SVM is located in the same availability zone, as the virtual machine with the installed Light Agent.
You can select SVM path type, which will be taken into account when determining SVM locality relative to Light Agent. Light Agent can connect only to local SVMs.
For example, if you specify hypervisor cluster as SVM path type, all SVMs deployed on this hypervisor cluster will be considered as local for Light Agent, and Light Agent can connect only to one of this SVMs. If there are no SVMs available for connection in the same cluster in which the Light Agent is running, the Light Agent does not connect to an SVM.
You can also specify that Light Agents must not take into the account SVM location in the virtual infrastructure when selecting SVM for connection. In this case, Light Agents can connect to any available SVMs.
If an advanced SVM selection algorithm is applied and you selected a custom list of SVM addresses as the method for Light Agents to discover SVMs, Light Agents can connect to SVMs only if the location of the SVM is not taken into account.
When selecting an SVM, Light Agents take into account the number of connected Light Agents to ensure that Light Agents are evenly distributed between SVMs that are available for connection.