How to migrate HP-UX workloads between physical and virtual servers easily

Figure 8. Virtual Connect Ethernet networks

Networks connected to virtual machines can be defined and characterized by the virtual switches that they are

connected to. Figure 9 shows virtual logical server LS1 connected to virtual switches Mgmt_1 and Prod_1. A move of

this logical server toward a physical blade is possible only if LSM finds a target blade connected to the same physical

networks. By assigning the exact same names to virtual switches and Virtual Connect networks, there is no ambiguity

and LSM can proceed to the move.

Figure 9 shows such a configuration where Virtual Connect has the Mgmt_1 and Prod_1 networks, defined the same

way as the virtual switches in the host.

Figure 9. Physical and virtual networks representations

Note: With HP Integrity VM version 4.3 Patch Kit 2 (January 2012), virtual switches can have a name containing more than 8 characters, allowing long

VC network names.