HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.2 User Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.2 User Guide
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installing Integrity Virtual Server Manager
- 3 Accessing and Navigating Integrity Virtual Server Manager
- 4 Using Integrity Virtual Server Manager views and tabs
- 5 Using Integrity Virtual Server Manager menus
- 6 Working with VMs or vPars
- Working with VMs
- Planning VMs
- Creating VMs
- Modifying VMs
- Starting VMs
- Stopping VMs
- Restarting VMs
- Deleting VMs
- Migrating VMs
- Suspending VMs
- Resuming VMs
- Moving suspend files
- Creating virtual switches
- Starting, stopping, and deleting virtual switches
- Deleting network or storage devices
- Opening iLO console
- Opening virtual iLO remote console
- Deleting virtual iLO remote console
- Deleting DIOs
- Adding DIOs
- Replacing DIO H/W path
- Replacing DIO MAC address
- Working with vPars
- Creating vPars
- Modifying vPars
- Booting vPars
- Stopping vPars
- Resetting vPars
- Creating virtual switches
- Starting, stopping, and deleting virtual switches
- Deleting network or storage devices
- Deleting vPars
- Opening iLO console
- Opening virtual iLO remote console
- Deleting virtual iLO remote console
- Adding DIOs
- Replacing DIO H/W path
- Replacing DIO MAC address
- Deleting DIOs
- Working with VMs
- 7 Collecting and viewing utilization data
- 8 Viewing logs and version information
- 9 Support and other resources
- Information to collect before contacting HP
- How to contact HP
- Security bulletin and alert policy for non-HP owned software components
- Subscription service
- Registering for software technical support and update service
- How to use your software technical support and update
- HP authorized resellers
- New and changed information in this edition
- Related information
- Typographic conventions
- 10 Documentation feedback
- A Error messages, status indicators, and troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
quickly. Configuration requirements for online migration are more elaborate than for offline
migration.
Some of the basic migration requirements include the following; for complete details, see the HP-UX
vPars and Integrity VM Administrator Guide manual:
• For online migration, the source and target VSPs must be running HP Integrity VM Version 4.1
or later.
• The source and target VSPs must conform to the operating system requirements, and both must
be able to provide the allocated resources to the VM being migrated.
• The target VSP must be accessible from the source VSP.
• Resources used by the VM must be configured symmetrically on both the source and target
VSP.
• You can migrate guests that use both the virtual I/O (VIO) and the accelerated virtual I/O
(AVIO) drivers for storage and network. Only whole disk SAN storage and ejected file-backed
DVDs can be migrated while the VM is online. File and logical volume backing storage are
not supported for online migration of VMs.
• Online migration requires that both the source and target VSP be licensed and enabled for
such migration. The licensing is included with a bundle that must be installed on each VSP;
for more information, see the HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM Administrator Guide manual.
• Online VM migration requires that the VM be enabled for online migration (the VSP
administrator can enable a VM by using the hpvmmodify -x
online_migration=enabled command).
Serviceguard requirements and recommendations
For online migration of a VM configured as a Serviceguard package, package switching for the
migrating VM guest package is disabled before migration begins and then re-enabled immediately
after the migration finishes. Therefore, the VM software is not protected by Serviceguard during
the migration process. If a failure occurs during migration, you must manually re-enable package
failover after the migration completes and restart the VM by running it on one of the Serviceguard
cluster nodes.
If temporary loss of failover protection is not tolerable, disable online migration for the VM. For
example, to disable the VM named sgnode, run the hpvmmodify command on the VSP as follows:
hpvmmodify -P sgnode -x online_migration=disabled
Do not attempt online migration of a VM configured as a Serviceguard cluster node. If a
Serviceguard node is migrated while online, it might lose connection to other cluster members and
be automatically removed from the cluster. Disable online migration for all VMs configured as
Serviceguard cluster nodes.
NOTE: Integrity Virtual Server Manager detects whether a VM is configured as a Serviceguard
package; the VSP Virtual Servers and VM Properties General tab tabs display the package icon
( ) next to the VM name.
For more information about managing VMs with Serviceguard support, see the HP-UX vPars and
Integrity VM Administrator Guide manual.
Capacity Advisor requirements and recommendations
If Capacity Advisor is used on the VM, collect utilization information before you migrate the VM.
The Capacity Advisor cannot continue to collect utilization information for the VM during the
migration.
96 Working with VMs or vPars