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HP Integrity Virtual Machines A.03.00 Release Notes HP Part Number: T2767-90076 Published: April 2007, Edition 4.0 - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 2
later (in both 32 and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX 95 branded products. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 3
Linux Guests...14 1.3 Dynamic Memory...14 1.4 Creating Virtual Machine Installing the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Product Over the Evaluation Software 22 2.4 Do Not Install Applications on the VM Host System 22 2.5 Do Not Install Integrity VM on a Virtual Partition 23 2.6 Do Not Install Windows - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 4
Windows Guests Gracefully 28 4.1.9 Do Not Delete EFI Shell Boot Option 28 4.2 HP-UX Guests...28 4.2.1 HP-UX 11.31 Guests May Fail to Configure More than Two MPT Interfaces 29 4.2.2 Patches for HP Memory Must Be a Multiple of 64 MB 34 5.10 Actual Running Entitlement May Differ from Configured - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 5
Configure VLAN Vswitches on HP-UX VLANs 44 7.9 For VLANs Between VM Host and Guests, Turn Off CKO 44 7.10 Restarting Vswitches...44 8 Storage Information...47 8.1 DMP Files Not Supported as Backing Stores 47 8.2 Using Database Management Products Devices 48 8.11 Installing Integrity VM Clears - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 6
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and Serial Number 15 1-2 Guest Management Software Kit Locations 16 2-1 VM Host Patches...18 2-2 HP-UX Guest Patches...19 2-3 Do Not Install Products or Patches on HP-UX Guests 20 2-4 Ignite/UX Patches...20 2-5 Windows Patches...20 2-6 Do Not Install Products or Patches on Windows Guests 21 - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 8
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Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration and includes the following chapters: • "Introduction" (page 13) describes some of the enhancements and quality improvements in the current release of the HP Integrity Virtual Machines product. • "Installation Notes" (page 17 - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 10
Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration • Ignite-UX Reference • HP-UX Installation and Update Guide • HP-UX Reference • Managing Serviceguard • Windows on Integrity: Smart Setup Guide 6 Publishing History Publication Number Supported VM Host Operating Supported Integrity VM - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 11
Please include the document title, manufacturing part number, and any comment, error found, or suggestion for improvement you have concerning this document. 7 HP Encourages Your Comments 11 - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 12
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about these enhancements, refer to the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual. • Guests can run any of the following operating systems: - HP-UX 11.23 (May 2005 [0505] or later) - HP-UX 11.31 - Windows 2003 (Enterprise or Datacenter edition) - RedHat - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 14
, Itanium, AMD64 • Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T) • Red Hat Linux Customization Guide The guest parameter settings for Linux guests are listed in Table 3-1 (page 25). For information about installing Linux guests, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 15
machine MAC address and serial number. To specify this information, memory driver installed on the guest, then only configuration values are displayed. Otherwise, on a running guest with dynamic memory configured and the dynamic memory driver installed performed without requiring user input. • The - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 16
of guest operating system. The instructions for installing the guest management software are provided in README.txt files in these directories. Table 1-2 Guest Management Software Kit Locations Guest Operating System HP-UX 11i v2 HP-UX 11i v3 Linux Windows Guest Management Software Location /opt - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 17
as part of the HP-UX operating system, or download the software from www.hp.com. This version of HP WBEM Services is also required in order to install VM Provider and VM Manager. 2.1.3 Installing the hpvmmigrate Command The hpvmmigrate command is included in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines product - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 18
VLANs between guest and VM Host VLAN. Resolves potential corruption of guest configuration, cimserver, or other WBEM files when under extreme load. Download HP WBEM Services for HP-UX Product Bundle B8465BA from the HP software depot. Resolves panic and system hang symptoms 18 Installation Notes - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 19
HP-UX 11.23 0505 A.01.00 or later U320 SCSI MPT driver version B.11.23.03, bundle A7173A HP-UX 11.23 0505 or A.01.00 or later later PHKL_34278 HP manually installed if feature 11i is not installed. configuration, cimserver, or other WBEM Services files when under extreme load. 2.1 Installing Integrity - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 20
HP-UX software, contact your HP representative or support specialist. Table 2-3 lists patches and products that you should not install on HP-UX guests. In guests where these patches are installed 2-5 Windows Patches Affected Guest OS and Affected Integrity VM Fix Version Version Windows Server - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 21
the Integrity VM product: 1. Back up the /var/opt/hpvm directory to retain existing Integrity VM configuration files. When you install Integrity VM, the guest and virtual switch configuration files are modified in a way that makes them incompatible with the previous version. This step allows you to - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 22
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual. 2.3 Installing the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Product Over the Evaluation Software If you installed as described in the VSE Management Software Installation and Update Guide. To upgrade the VM Host, use the following - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 23
, you must also install the UtilProvider software (provided with the HP Integrity Support Pack for Windows). Follow the instructions for installing Windows guests in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual. • Using HP Instant Capacity with Integrity - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 24
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guest configuration. The following guest OS specific settings are applied if you specify the operating system type with the -0 option to the hpvmcreate command. Table 3-1 Guest Default Settings HP-UX Guest Default Windows Guest Settings Default Settings Maximum CPUs Default CPUs Default memory - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 26
using the system to create a golden image, verify that neither of these bundles are installed. That is, errors should result when querying the system with swlist: # swlist T2767AC about using Ignite-UX golden images, refer to the Ignite-UX Administration Guide. 26 Creating Virtual Machines - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 27
from the virtual console, the guest hangs. To recover from the problem, restart the guest from the virtual console. 4.1.2 HP Insight Manager Automatic Server Recovery Does Not Work On Windows guests, the HP Insight Manager product supports Automatic Server Recovery: if a system does not send out - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 28
prompted, enter the product key. The installation process proceeds normally from this point. For more information about using removable media, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual. 4.1.5 Enabling MP Services on Windows Guest Logs telnetd Errors - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 29
allows you to map physical I/O addresses into the user process address space. Do not use this command on HP-UX guests. 4.2.5 iCAP Commands Fail on HP-UX Guests iCAP is installed as part of the HP-UX OS installation. Install-time configuration of iCAP reports failure with messages similar to the - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 30
are to be managed by VM Manager: 1. Install the tog-pegasus package. 2. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, modify the file /etc/Pegasus/access.conf to allow WBEM access using your designated WBEM user name and password. Follow the steps below to configure this file. In this example, your designated WBEM - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 31
where to download the Utilization Provider for the Linux guest, see the VSE Management Software Installation and Update Guide. 4.3.5 problem also occurs on native Integrity servers running Linux. For more information, see the "Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP)" web page on http://www.hp - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 32
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the guest configuration files still have the original guest names. To correct this problem, change the With HP Serviceguard, you can share Virtual Disks. Other types of storage devices are not supported for configuration files at the same time: hpvm_guest_get_state:103:No Guest by that name or number - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 34
fractions. Fractions are ignored. 5.9 Guest Memory Must Be a Multiple of 64 MB When you specify the guest memory, use a multiple of 64 MB. When installing the Linux guest management software kit, as described in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 35
Exporting these environment variables allows you to display the manpage content from a Linux guest console. Some minor differences in the appearance of the manpages as displayed on HP-UX and as displayed on Linux are expected. 5.12 Manpages Display on Linux Guests 35 - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 36
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a result, the virtual console administrator name can be any valid HP-UX login name. To continue accessing the virtual console, existing guest the guest configuration file. For example, using a guest named compass1 (and therefore a user account named compass1), the home directory for user compass1 - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 38
addition of the /. to the end of the argument to the -d option, which ensures there is no confusion with HP-UX shared home directories. 6.4 Modifying group is automatically added to /etc/group when Integrity VM is installed. Do not add user accounts to this group. 6.6 Do Not Enter Ctrl/B after - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 39
problems with subsequent reboots of that guest. To correct the problem The guest captures a memory dump of the install HP Serviceguard A.11.16 or 11.17 on the VM Host or on the HP-UX guest. You can install HP Serviceguard 11.18 only on guests running HP-UX 11i v3. 6.7 Restoring the NVRAM for Windows - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 40
menu items. Use Serviceguard commands to start and stop distributed virtual machines. For more information, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual. • The VM Hosts field on the VM Properties page sometimes shows an incorrect list of hosts in - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 41
number of seconds. The default value is 5. That is, if the HPVMNETINTVL tunable is not set in the file, the value is 5 seconds. For Serviceguard in Integrity VM configurations, the recommended value is 2. For more information, see the following manuals: • HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 42
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supported at this time. 7.2 Do Not Use the HP A5506B PCI 10/100Base-TX 4 Port Interface for Virtual Networking Host to guest connectivity may not be reliable when using the HP to the /etc/rc.config.d/hpvmconf configuration file: HPVMMACADDRFRAMES=n Where n is the number of attempts (1 to 30). The - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 44
following command: # lanadmin -x vmtu 0 Driver/Hardware supports TCP Segmentation Offload, Current VMTU = 32160 . For example: # hpvmnet Name Number State Mode PPA MAC Address IP HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual. 44 Networking - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 45
When you restart a vswitch, it is not necessary to restart the guests using the vswitch. 7.10 Restarting Vswitches 45 - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 46
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blade, rx3600, and rx6600 servers with such devices should use Virtual FileDVDs or Ignite-UX for guest operating system installations. Hardware supportability requirements for Integrity VM are described in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 48
appear to a guest as Ultra320 SCSI controllers claimed by the MPT driver, this is an emulation. There are several differences from using a real device. Specifically: • You cannot upload or download firmware for emulated devices. • Although HP-UX commands such as mptutil(1M) and mptconfig(1M) do not - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 49
9 Migrating Virtual Machines This section contains information about migrating virtual machines. 9.1 Do Not Migrate Distributed Guests Guests that are configured as Serviceguard packages cannot be migrated. 9.2 Collect CapAd Data before Migrating If you migrate a virtual machine that is being - HP BL860c | HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes - Page 50
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the command.log file. If this is a problem, reboot the VM Host system. This reinitializes Be Inaccurate Virtual machines do not support standard management processor console errdump commands. numbering is inconsistent for different lines. • Although the command menu allows you to specify a cell number
HP Integrity Virtual Machines A.03.00
Release Notes
HP Part Number: T2767-90076
Published: April 2007, Edition 4.0