HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.3 Release Notes

Integrity Virtual Server Manager overview
This document provides information about the HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.3 release.
HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager is used to manage virtual machines (VMs) and virtual partitions
(vPars). It supports the features of HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.3.
Integrity Virtual Server Manager
Integrity Virtual Server Manager is an application that you can use from your browser to manage
HP Integrity VMs (Integrity VM) and vPar resources. Based on the version of Integrity VM installed,
you can manage either VMs or vPars, or both at the same time.
Virtualization Services Platform
The Virtualization Services Platform (VSP) is a server that hosts multiple VMs or vPars. You can
manage the VMs and vPars on the VSP from the Virtual Server Manager GUI or the HP-UX vPars
and Integrity VM CLI. For more information about HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM, see the latest
version of HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM Administrator Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/
hpux-vpars-docs.
HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM
HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.3 supports Online Guest Migration of VM guests between servers
running Intel Itanium 9300 processors and Intel Itanium 9500 processors, Increased VM limits to
support 32 vCPUs and 256GB memory, PCI Online Add and Replace (OLAR) of I/O cards on
Superdome 2 (SD2) systems configured as VSP, Dynamic I/O addition to vPar and VM guest,
Online cleanup of NPIV targets, Multi-queue support in AVIO networking for VM guests, I/O
performance improvement, and CPU scalability with AVIO Storage. For more information about
HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM, see the latest version of HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM Administrator
Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docs.
Matrix Operating Environment and Virtual Server Manager
HP Matrix Operating Environment v7.2 supports HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.3. For more
information about Matrix Operating Environment, see the HP Matrix Operating Environment Getting
Started Guide available at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
New features in this release
This section describes the new features in the Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.3 release.
New features
The following features are new with Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.3:
• Supports offline vPar migration.
• Supports guest type conversion (VM to vPar and vPar to VM).
• Supports online migration of VM guests between servers running Intel Itanium 9300 processors
and Intel Itanium 9500 processors.
• Supports Dynamic I/O addition to vPar and VM guest.
The HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager version 6.3 supports the features of HP-UX vPars and
Integrity VM version 6.3. This version allows you to manage VMs and vPars. You can create,
modify, and delete VMs or vPars on a virtualization service platform or VSP system.
Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.3 supports both VMs and vPars management; however, managing
VMs or vPars are enabled or disabled depending on the version of Integrity VM installed.
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