HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2: Installation, Configuration, and Administration

Table 10-1 Options to the hpvmmigrate Command (continued)
DescriptionOption
Forces the migration of a virtual machine, whether or not there are
resource validation errors (such as resource conflict, resource
nonexistence, and so forth). . Use the -F option rarely and with caution.
This option ignores all resource validation errors, including
oversubscribing of resources.
NOTE: These errors can prevent the virtual machine from booting on
the target VM Host. Any validation errors are logged in the Integrity
VM command log.
-F
Specifies the host alias or IP address of the target VM Host machine to
which the virtual machine is being migrated. The target machine must
be a valid VM Host and must be accessible by the source VM Host.
Almost all forms of the hpvmmigrate command require the -h option.
For online migration, the parameter for the -h option should specify a
private, dedicated, high-speed network link to the target VM Host.
If you specify a simple non-qualified host name, the hpvmmigrate
command appends -hpvm-migr to the name and checks if a host alias
has been defined for a private network corresponding to the simple
name. Online guest migration does not check to ensure the link is
private, but using a private network is important for efficient and secure
online migrations and to preserve the bandwidth of the regular site
network.
-h
target-host-alias-or-IP-address
Displays information about how to use the hpvmmigrate command.-H
Creates the virtual machine configuration on the target VM Host and
marks it Not Runnable, but does not change the virtual machine on
the source VM Host. This is used primarily to distribute virtual machine
configurations for Serviceguard.
-k
Specifies a descriptive label for the virtual machine, which can be useful
in identifying a specific virtual machine in the hpvmstatus command
verbose display. The label can contain up to 256 alphanumeric characters,
including A-Z, a-z, 0-9, the dash (-), the underscore (_), and the period
(.). To specify white space, the label must be quoted (" ").
-l new-vm-label
For offline migrations, specifies a resource of a virtual machine for
copying, translation, and so on. This option can be specified more than
once. for information about specifying virtual machine storage and
network resources, see hpvmresources(5).
-m rsrc-with-absolute-path
Quits after starting the migration in the background. If not specified,
the hpvmmigrate command continues to run interactively and reports
the migration status until the migration is complete.
-n
Specifies the new name for the virtual machine being migrated. The
new-vm-name can be up to 256 alphanumeric characters, including
A-Z, a-z, 0–9, the dash (-), the underscore character (_), and the period
(.).The virtual machine name must not start with a dash (-).
If the virtual machine name exists on the target VM Host, the virtual
machine must have the same UUID as the source virtual machine, and
the virtual machine on the target must be marked Not Runnable.
-N new-vm-name
Specifies an online guest migration. To be compatible for online
migrations, both the source and the target VM Host must have the same
processor family (as reported by the machinfocommand). To maintain
online guest network connectivity, a vswitch with the same name and
connected to the same subnet must be configured on the target VM
Host. Also, only whole disk backing storage consisting of SAN LUNs,
and null backing store DVD devices, are supported for online migration
guest storage.
-o
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