HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Version 4.0 Release Notes

2 VM Manager Limitations and Known Issues
This chapter includes the following information in the sections indicated:
SectionInformation
“Limitations and Restrictions” (page 13)Limitations and restrictions
“Major Issues” (page 13)Known major issues that affect functionality or usability
of VM Manager and any ways you can work around these
issues
“Minor Issues” (page 13)Known minor issues that do not affect functionality or
usability significantly and any ways you can work around
these issues
“Documentation Errors and Limitations” (page 15)Known errors, omissions, and limitations in the VM
Manager documentation (including help).
Any limitations or issues that are HP SMH specific are noted as such.
Limitations and Restrictions
This section describes limitations or restrictions in this release of VM Manager.
Version 4.0 VM Provider Should Not Be Installed on a VM Host with Integrity VM
Version 3.5 or Earlier
Applies to: Both VSE/HP SIM VM Manager and HP SMH Standalone VM Manager
The version of the VM Provider installed on the VM Host must be equal to or greater than the
version of the Integrity VM product installed on the VM Host. However, due to a backward
compatibility defect, you should not install a version 4.0 VM Provider on a VM Host with Integrity
VM version 3.5 or earlier. The version 4.0 VM Provider does not work properly with VM Manager
or VSE.
Workaround This defect will be fixed in a subsequent release of the VM Provider. The version
4.0 VM Provider works properly on a VM Host with version 4.0 of Integrity VM, and the version
3.5 VM Provider works properly on a VM Host with version 3.5 of Integrity VM.
Major Issues
This section describes known issues that significantly affect functionality or usability of VM
Manager. For this release, there are no major issues identified for the VM Manager.
Minor Issues
This section describes known issues that do not have a significant impact on functionality or
usability of VM Manager. Suggestions for working around these issues are included.
VM Manager Screens Might Incorrectly Identify or Omit USB Backing Devices
Applies to: Both VSE/HP SIM VM Manager and HP SMH Standalone VM Manager
Integrity VM 4.0 allows a USB DVD or CD drive to be used as the backing devices for a virtual
DVD or CD in a virtual machine. However, in the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2008 Operating
Environment Update Release (OEUR) and earlier, the drivers for the USB devices are not
completely integrated into the HP-UX 11i v3 agile mass storage stack. They have neither a
persistent device special file nor a LUN hardware path. In addition, they have an ioscan
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