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

11.8 Storage Interface Support
NotesIntegrity VM Version B.04.20, B.04.20.05,
and B.04.30 (both VIO and AVIO unless
explicitly excluded)
Integrity VM Version A.03.50 (Both VIO
and AVIO unless explicity excluded)
Virtual I/O storage interfaces
are those defined using the
scsi adapter type.
Accelerated virtual I/O (AVIO)
storage interfaces are defined
using the avio_stor adapter
type. (See the
hpvmresources manpage.)
• Fibre Channel adapters supported by
TD, FCD, or FLCP drivers
• SCSI adapters supported by the C8xx,
MPT, or CISS drivers
• IDE adapters supported by the SIDE
driver
• USB support of the UsbScsiAdapter
driver and USB 2.0 support of the
usb_ms_scsi driver (AVIO HVSD support
for USB 2.0 as of 11i v3 0903)
• iSCSI adapters supported by the iSCSI
driver (AVIO requires HostAVIOStor
B.11.31.1009.01 or later)
• SAS adapters supported by the SASD
driver
• For B.04.30 and AVIO only, FCoE
support provided by CNA supported by
the FCoC driver
• SATA DVD is supported by AVIO only.
Even if SATA DVD is set as a SCSI
device, the guest EFI does not recognize
it.
• Fibre Channel adapters supported by
TD, FCD, or FLCP drivers
• SCSI adapters supported by the C8xx,
MPT, or CISS drivers
• IDE adapters supported by the SIDE
driver
• USB support of the UsbScsiAdapter
driver and USB 2.0 support of the
usb_ms_scsi driver (AVIO HVSD
support for USB 2.0 as of 11i v2 0810
web release)
• iSCSI adapters supported by the iSCSI
driver
• SAS adapters supported by the SASD
driver
NOTE: This table reflects support for the “disk” backing store type for VIO (other backing store
types do not care what the adapter is). The adapter support reflects all paths to a given a disk
backing store (that is, an unsupported adapter cannot be in parallel with support adapters and
still work; all paths to the disk backing store must be with supported adapters. You cannot rely on
the CLI and API interfaces to prevent unsupported disk adapter configurations. Unsupported
configurations might result in guest panics.
11.8.1 Guest Attached Device Support
NotesIntegrity VM Version B.04.30
Attached devices are supported for all types of guest
operating systems that provide supported drivers for the
physical device as attached to the VM Host device.
• CD/DVD burners
• Media changers
• Tape devices
NOTE: Attached devices (VIO) and burners are not supported for OpenVMS guests.
11.8.2 Multipathing Software Support
Multipathing software is supported on the Integrity VM Host system. Unless specified otherwise,
multipathing is supported for use with either legacy virtual I/O (virtual adapter type specified as
scsi) or AVIO (virtual adapter type specified as avio_stor). The required version for these
products is determined by the software vendor and the release of HP-UX installed on the VM Host
system.
52 Integrity VM Support Policy