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

Virtual to physical and physical to virtual offline moves

In this paragraph, we will discuss the different steps needed to perform virtual to physical and then physical to virtual

moves. The first operation consists of creating a logical server called v2p2v_ls in the unlike portability group created

earlier. It will be activated first in a virtual machine. After the deployment of HP-UX in this virtual machine, we will

perform a V2P offline move.

Creating and activating a cross-technology Integrity logical server

Creating logical server v2p2v_ls

From the Matrix OE Visualization select CreateLogical Server and fill the different fields as

the following:

Logical Server name: v2p2v_ls

Logical Server Description: HP-UX v2p2v

Portability Group: Integrity V2P2V

Logical Server Architecture: HP Integrity

Logical Server Operating System: HP-UX

Managed Resource Name: v2p2v

Click on Next and specify suitable values in the compute resources screen.

Step 3 asks to specify the storage configuration for this logical server. Select the V2P2V [SAN] storage pool entry

and click on the Insert Pool Entry button. This action calls the VCEM embedded GUID for providing worldwide

numbers. They are displayed at the bottom of figure 15.

Figure 15. Creating a cross-technology virtual server