HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Release Notes (5900-2265, May 2012)

• hpvmhostgdev script utility
• 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 the HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Installation, Configuration,
and Administration manual. 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.
1.2 Guest and VM Host Support
The following table lists support in Integrity VM V4.3 for the various HP Integrity servers and HP
Integrity server blades:
Table 1 Guest and VM Host Support
VM Host on HP
Integrity Servers
VM Host on HP
Integrity rx2800 i2
Servers
1
VM Host on HP
Integrity Superdome
2
1
VM Host on HP
Integrity server
blades
1
Guests
YesYesYesYesHP-UX 11i v2 0712
YesNoNoYesHP-UX 11i v3 1003
YesYesYesYesHP-UX 11i v3 1009
YesYesNoYesHP OpenVMS V8.4
YesYesYesYesHP-UX 11i v3 1103
YesYesYesYesHP-UX 11i v3 1109
1
Support for the latest Intel® Itanium® Processor 9300 Series
1.3 Changes in Support
The following list contains changes in support in future releases of Integrity VM:
• Use of the hpvmupgrade and the pv2assist commands is deprecated in V4.3 and will
be dropped in the next Integrity VM release.
• Use of VIO is deprecated starting in V4.3.
VIO support is deprecated starting in the V4.3 release of Integrity VM, so you should begin
planning to convert from VIO to AVIO at your earliest opportunity. In addition, no new I/O
hardware, such as FCoE CNA's will be supported with VIO. To determine if your VMs are
using VIO, run hpvmstatus -d for all your guests. Look for storage devices that use scsi
and look for network devices that use lan:
# hpvmstatus -P guestname -d | grep -w scsi
# hpvmstatus -P guestname -d | grep -w lan
A VLAN tag can be configured on an AVIO localnet vswitch port. The guest lan bound to this
vswitch port can be used only to communicate with another guest lan bound to a vswitch port
that does not have a VLAN tag configured.
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