HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Release Notes (5900-2265, May 2012)

• NVRAM Edit Utility — Displays, creates, edits and removes EFI variables in NVRAM files from
a VM Host.
• HP Integrity VM virtual iLO Remote Console for HP–UX guests — Allows access to the guest
console by logging into a specific IP address.
• Serviceguard 11.20
• Serviceguard A.11.19 is supported with Integrity VM V4.3 only for HP-UX 11i v2 guests with
the following restrictions:
◦ In a VMs as Serviceguard Nodes configuration
◦ HP Integrity Superdome
◦ No Serviceguard Toolkit support
• 16 virtual CPUs
• 128 GB guest memory
• 256 virtual AVIO storage devices
• Multiple Accelerated Virtual Input/Output (AVIO) LAN localnet support — For information,
see Section 7.2.3 (page 30).
• Guest VLAN support for AVIO localnet — For information, see Section 7.2.3 (page 30).
• Support for NFS guest back stores for root, swap, and dump. For information, see Section
6.2.2.4 in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Installation, Configuration, Administration
• hpvmsar enhancements — For information about the new options, see Section 5.1.2
(page 25).
• Support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) using the next generation converged
infrastructure (CNA) hardware.
NOTE: Integrity VM V4.3 supports HP NC551m Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Converged
Network Adapter for FCoE and networking. For information about CNA, see HP Converged
Network Adapters (CNA) at the following BSC website: HP Adapter and I/O Card
documentation
• If hyperthreading is turned on at firmware level, the lcpu_attr kernel tunable needs to be set
to zero (0) on the VM Host.
Integrity VM does not schedule on a per-thread basis. Scheduling is still done on a per-core
basis only. Keeping hyperthreading on in the VM Host does not provide extra CPU cores for
guests.
• Support for the following VM Host and guests — see Section 1.2 (page 13).
For more information about support, see the support tables in Chapter 11 (page 47).
• OpenVMS V8.4 guest support
• HP Integrity server blades support
• Suspend and Resume support on HP-UX and OpenVMS guests, which allows you to suspend
and resume a virtual machine. See the hpvmsuspend (1M) and hpvmresume (1M) manpages
for details.
• Vswitch can be backed by a VLAN interface (IEEE 802.1Q).
• Support for HP Integrity Superdome 2
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