Dynamic Storage Technology (DST) for Open Enterprise Server (OES) 2015 SP1 works similarly on a native hardware environment and on a virtual machine, with the following caveats:
DST supports up to 16 shadow volumes and up to 16 ShadowFS volumes in a virtualized guest server environment.
DST is not supported for use in the virtualization host server environment.
Limits for the number of devices assigned to a virtual machine:
Para-virtualized: 16 devices
Fully virtualized: 4 devices
To get started with Xen virtualization, see the Virtualization with Xen documentation.
To get started with KVM virtualization, see the Virtualization with KVM documentation.
For information on setting up virtualized OES 2015 SP1, see Installing, Upgrading, or Updating OES on a VM
in the OES 2015 SP1: Installation Guide.
To get started with third-party virtualization platforms, such as Hyper-V from Microsoft and the different VMware product offerings, refer to the documentation for the product you are using.