Top Ten Tips for Using Integrity Virtual Machines

#2 – Install VM Kit in the Guests

Symptoms: Performance, Functionality

Applications in the VM, especially those that are disk I/O intensive, perform poorly. This is especially

pertinent when virtual disks are mapped to logical volumes on the VM Host.

The command line interfaces hpvminfo and hpvmcollect are delivered with guest kits.

Prevention and Treatment

HP-UX Guests

The HPVM-Guest bundle is provided in an SD (tape format) depot file,

/opt/hpvm/guest-images/hpux/hpvm_guest_depot.sd

on the VM Host system.

When creating a golden image to use for OS installation on virtual machines, install the HPVM-Guest

bundle on the golden system.

Once the OS installed on a VM, install the bundle directly from the VM Host (or it may be copied to

an SD depot with swcopy). For example, if the VM Host’s hostname is vmhost.lab.hp.com, then the

bundle may be installed on the VM with

swinstall –x autoreboot=true \

-s vmhost.lab.hp.com:/opt/hpvm/guest-images/hpux/hpvm_guest_depot.sd \

HPVM-Guest

For the newer Integrity servers (with Montecito processors), the guests and VM Host will need to install

the Hardware Enablement (HWE) bundle available with the September 2006 (0609) OE media.

Windows® Guests

Installation of HP’s SmartSetup media, version 4.5 or later, provides the guest kit for Windows,

including the WBEM providers for virtual machines and utilization that are used by VSE tools. Note

that you may need to create an exception in the Windows Firewall by adding a port with name

wbem-https and number 5989.

Linux® Guests

The Integrity VM guest kit for Linux as well as HP’s Utilization WBEM provider is available from the

Management CD, version 3.63 or later, in HP’s Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux. VSE

tools require the installation and configuration of WBEM functionality. Consult VSE documentation for

more details.

For more information on the SmartSetup media for Windows, visit the website

http://www.hp.com/go/integrityessentials. Similarly, details regarding the Management CD and HP

Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux are available from

http://www.hp.com/go/integritylinuxessentials.