HP Insight Management 7.3 Support Matrix

Storage options for virtual machine guests
VMware and Microsoft independently certify third-party devices with their respective operating
systems, hypervisors, and iSCSI initiators. Confirmation of device support by the hypervisor vendor
is a prerequisite to support in Insight Management.
Table 37 Storage options for VM guests
Integrity VM
1
Microsoft Hyper-V VMVMware VM
Storage type
SAN-based
(or
SLVM with
Serviceguard
Disk
Pass-Through
(RDM)
NTFS
2
NFSRDM
VMFS
2
NPIV-based)
Storage
3
✓
4
✓✓
4, 5
✓✓
4
✓Fibre Channel
✓
7, 10
✓
9
✓
6, 7, 8
iSCSI
✓
10
✓
10
DAS
✓
10
✓
10
SAS
✓
10
NAS
1
Integrity VM virtual machine guests must have an HP-UX operating system type. Windows and Linux guests are not
supported. For more information about requirements and restrictions for Integrity VM hosts running on HP-UX, see Table 58
(page 61).
2
All virtual disks of a given VM must reside on the same datastore as the VM itself.
3
Integrity VM only supports NPIV for the Emulex HBA and not the CNA.
4
Not supported by Matrix OE for shared data disks. Supported for boot or private data disks, but raw LUNs (VMware
RDM, Hyper-V Disk Pass-Through, or Integrity VM SAN-based or NPIV-based disks) cannot be shared among VMs.
5
Non-High Availability (HA) VMs with non-cluster disk pass-through are supported without limitations. High Availability
VMs are only supported with pass-through cluster disks if Maintenance Mode is turned on for those disks (using Microsoft
Failover Cluster Manager) before any provisioning or deactivate/reactivate operations. Maintenance Mode can be
turned off after successful provisioning, OS installation, and activation (or reactivation).
6
Matrix recovery management supports only 3PAR StoreServ iSCSI (Table 35 (page 36)) as VM backing store. For other
iSCSI storage systems that Matrix Operating Environment supports, Matrix recovery management provides a user-defined
storage adapter interface specification for integration. For more information, see HP Matrix Operating Environment
Recovery Management User Guide and also “iSCSI SAN” (page 40).
7
Customer must provide connectivity to a compatible iSCSI SAN. End-to-end support for iSCSI storage use by the hypervisor
is generally certified by the storage vendor.
8
Supported by VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2 and later.
9
Not supported by Matrix OE, including Matrix infrastructure orchestration and Matrix recovery management software.
10
Not supported by Matrix recovery management.
Matrix OE support in VMware VXLAN environments
Matrix OE supports VMware VXLAN with specific prerequisites and considerations. Correctly
configured and used, Matrix OE can provision and import VMs in an environment using VMware
VXLAN. Specifically, Matrix OE is able to provision infrastructure using virtual networks from
vShield Manager, configured under dvSwitches. Customers can use IO to display networks from
vCenter, configure those networks in IO, assign networks to organizations, and provision
infrastructure using service templates. For more information, see the HP Matrix Operating
Environment 7.3 Release Notes and the HP Matrix Operating Environment support of VMware
VXLAN environments white paper located at hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs .
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