HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5: Release Notes

1.1 New Features and Enhancements in This Version of Integrity VM
This section describes how the current version of Integrity VM has been enhanced over previous
versions.
The following feature has been included in this release of Integrity VM:
• Support for the HP Integrity rx2800 i2
• Dynamic memory support enabled by default- Dynamic memory is now enabled by default
for support of the statistics—gathering feature in guests. For guests that are not currently using
dynamic memory, there should be no effect. (See notes on patch requirements.)
The features in the following list have been rolled-into Integrity VM V4.2.5 from the patch kits that
were provided after Integrity V4.2 was released:
• Suspend and Resume support on HP-UX and OpenVMS guests, which allows you to suspend
and resume a virtual machine. See the hpvmsuspend (1M) and hpvmresume (1M) manpages
for details.
• Vswitch can be backed by a VLAN interface (IEEE 802.1Q).
• Support for HP Integrity Superdome 2
• Integrity VM is now fully supported with HP Insight Dynamics - VSE (ID−VSE) 6.2. Logical
Server Management (LSM) and HP Insight Orchestration include support for Integrity VM
Virtualization Provider Version 2.0 (VirtProvider), which is used with logical server features in
Insight Dynamics to manage Integrity VM Hosts and HP-UX guests.
For information about the new support in ID-VSE, see Section 6.1.1 (page 61). For information
about LSM, see HP Insight Virtualization Manager Software with Logical Server Management:
User Guide at www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs. For information about Insight
Orchestration, see the HP Insight Orchestration 6.2 User Guide at www.hp.com/go/
insightdynamics/docs.
• New hpvmhostgdev script, used to analyze disklist and lvlist output and add unused
gdevs to the Integrity VM database. For information about the hpvmhostgdev script, see
Appendix A (page 105).
• Support for the latest Intel® Itanium® Processor 9300 series on the following VM Host and
guests:
◦ HP-UX 11i v3 VM Host — HP-UX 11i v3 1009
◦ HP-UX 11i v3 guests — HP-UX 11i v3 0903 through 1009
◦ HP-UX 11i v2 guests — HP-UX 11i v2 0712
◦ HP OpenVMS V8.4 guests — HP OpenVMS V8.4
• OpenVMS guest support
• HP Integrity server blades support
1.2 Guest and VM Host Support
The following table lists support for the various HP Integrity servers and HP Integrity server blades:
Table 1 Guest and VM Host Support
VM Host on HP
Integrity rx2800 i2
VM Host on HP
Integrity Servers
VM Host on HP
Integrity Superdome
2
1
VM Host on HP
Integrity server
blades
1
Guests
YesYesYesYesHP-UX 11i v2 0712
NoYesNoNoHP-UX 11i v3 0709
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