HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Version 4.0 Release Notes

Other components that are integrated with VSE include:
— HP Application Discovery
— HP Instant Capacity Manager
— WBEM providers and other VSE agents
For more information about VSE concepts and terminology, including a complete list of the
components in the VSE Management Software suite, see the HP Insight Dynamics — VSE
and HP VSE Management Software 4.1 Getting Started Guide.
Information about HP SMH is available from the following HP SMH website:
http://www.hp.com/go/smh
Information about HP SIM is available from the following HP SIM website:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim
New In this Release
Version A.04.00 of the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager adds the following new features
and capabilities:
• Support of HP-UX 11i v3 as a VM Host, including features of HP-UX 11i v3, such as long
user names, hostnames, PIDs, and agile storage device naming.
• Support of HP Integrity VM version 4.0 (in addition to all earlier versions of Integrity VM
that are still supported).
NOTE: This version of VM Manager is compatible with HP Integrity Virtual Machines
version 4.1 but does not support the new features provided by that version of the product.
The releases of an operating system that are supported on guests vary from version to version
of HP Integrity Virtual Machines. For information about supported VM guest operating
systems, see the version of the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and
Administration manual that corresponds to the version of HP Integrity Virtual Machines
being used.
• Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO) support for the following:
— HP-UX 11i v3 operating system.
— File backing stores for HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 guests (this means that an AVIO
DVD can read from an ISO image file).
— AVIO virtual network devices for Windows and Linux guests. This requires that
compatible Windows and Linux drivers be installed on the guest and additional patches
be installed on the Integrity VM versions 3.5 or 4.0. The Windows guest AVIO drivers
are included in the VMGuestSW bundle available from the software depot at the
following website:
http://software.hp.com
Search for “VMGuestSW” and select the link for Integrity Virtual Machines (HP-UX
11i v3 VM Host).
At the time of publication of this document, the Linux guest AVIO drivers are not yet
available.
The Integrity VM version 3.5 patches are PHSS_38297 and PHSS_38298. The Integrity
VM version 4.0 patches (for HP-UX 11i v3) are PHSS_38566, PHSS_38567, PHSS_38611,
PHSS_38631. Integrity VM version 4.0 supports Windows and Linux guest AVIO
networking with the Integrity VM version 4.0 patches.
• Support of legacy and agile storage device addressing, the latter being introduced with
HP-UX 11i v3. Legacy addressing uses the device special file (DSF) path as defined in HP-UX
11i v2 and earlier versions of HP-UX. The new agile device model uses worldwide device
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