HP Insight Management 7.3 Update 1 Support Matrix

Table 31 Storage options for VM guests (continued)
Integrity VM
1
Microsoft Hyper-V VMVMware VM
Storage type
SAN-based
(or
NPIV-based)
Storage
2
SLVM with
Serviceguard
Disk
Pass-Through
(RDM)NTFSNFSRDMVMFS
✓
9
✓
9
SAS
✓
9
NAS
1
Integrity VM virtual machine guests must have an HP-UX operating system type. Windows and Linux guests are not supported. For
more information about requirements and restrictions for Integrity VM hosts running on HP-UX, see Table 52 (page 60).
2
Integrity VM supports NPIV for the Emulex HBA and CNA from HPVM version B.06.30
3
Not supported by Matrix OE for shared data disks. Supported for boot or private data disks, but raw LUNs (VMware RDM, Hyper-V
Disk Pass-Through, or Integrity VM SAN-based or NPIV-based disks) cannot be shared among VMs.
4
Non-High Availability (HA) VMs with non-cluster disk pass-through are supported without limitations. High Availability VMs are
only supported with pass-through cluster disks if Maintenance Mode is turned on for those disks (using Microsoft Failover Cluster
Manager) before any provisioning or deactivate/reactivate operations. Maintenance Mode can be turned off after successful
provisioning, OS installation, and activation (or reactivation).
5
Matrix recovery management supports only 3PAR StoreServ iSCSI (Table 29 (page 36)) as VM backing store. For other iSCSI
storage systems that Matrix Operating Environment supports, Matrix recovery management provides a user-defined storage adapter
interface specification for integration. For more information, see HP Matrix Operating Environment Recovery Management User
Guide and also “iSCSI SAN” (page 39).
6
Customer must provide connectivity to a compatible iSCSI SAN. End-to-end support for iSCSI storage use by the hypervisor is
generally certified by the storage vendor.
7
Supported by VMware ESX 4.0 Update 2 and later.
8
Not supported by Matrix OE, including Matrix infrastructure orchestration and Matrix recovery management software.
9
Not supported by Matrix recovery management.
Matrix OE support in VMware VXLAN environments
The 7.3 release (or later) includes support for VMware VXLAN with specific prerequisites and
considerations. Correctly configured and used, Matrix OE can provision and import VMs in an
environment using VMware VXLAN. Specifically, Matrix OE is able to provision infrastructure using
virtual networks from vShield Manager, configured under dvSwitches. Customers can use
infrastructure orchestration to display networks from vCenter, configure those networks in
infrastructure orchestration, assign networks to organizations, and provision infrastructure using
service templates.
Flat SAN
Matrix Operating Environment supports the use of Flat SAN technology by several hypervisors to
direct connect from the FlexFabric module to an HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System. The following
configurations for each hypervisor are supported:
• VMware (standalone and clustered): VMs using file-based and/or RDM volumes from Flat
SAN connected 3PAR (hypervisor configured to use Flat SAN out-of-band to Matrix)
• Hyper-V (standalone and clustered): VMs using file-based and/or Disk Pass-Through volumes
from Flat SAN connected 3PAR (hypervisor configured to use Flat SAN out-of-band to Matrix)
• Integrity VMs: VMs using file-based and SAN-based LUNs through AVIO (hypervisor configured
to use Flat SAN out-of-band to Matrix, AVIO SAN-based LUNs configured out-of-band to
Matrix, and Matrix only provisions NPIV-based LUNs); Flat SAN requires FlexFabric modules.
Integrity VM supports NPIV for the Converged Network Adapters.
HP CloudSystem Matrix does not provision volumes for physical servers from the direct connect
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System.
Supported storage products 41