About managing service groups

Last published : Jun 19, 2026
A service group is a virtual container that contains all the hardware and the software resources that are required to run the managed application. Service groups allow VCS to control all the hardware and the software resources of the managed application as a single unit. When a failover occurs, resources do not fail over individually; the entire service group fails over. If more than one service group is on a system, a group can fail over without affecting the others.
In the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager console, the Service Groups tab in a cluster view, or the Service Groups view enables you to do the following:
  • Collectively manage multiple service groups
  • Individually manage a single service group
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Enabling service groups
Freezing service groups
Enabling all resources of service groups
Flushing service groups
Clearing faults on service group
Linking service groups in a cluster
Autoenabling service groups
Editing attributes of service groups
Creating service groups
Converting local service groups to global service groups
Converting global service groups to local service groups
Modifying the system list for a service group
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