HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration Version A.03.50

resources to the virtual machines, do not run end-user applications, such as database software,
on the VM Host system. Instead, run them on virtual machines.
Typical software you can run on the VM Host system includes the following:
• HP-UX 11i V2 Foundation Operating Environment (FOE)
NOTE: The HP-UX FOE and license is included with the Integrity VM media so that you
can install and run Integrity VM on the VM Host system. For HP-UX guests, you must
purchase separate HP-UX FOE licenses.
For information about the software that is required on the VM Host system, see Chapter 2
(page 25).
• Software installation tools (Ignite-UX and Software Distributor-UX)
• Hardware diagnostic and support tools to monitor guests (WBEM, online diagnostics, Instant
Support Enterprise Edition [ISEE])
• System performance monitoring tools (GlancePlus, Measureware, OpenView Operations
Agent)
• Utility pricing tools (Instant Capacity, Pay per use)
• Hardware management tools (nPartition Manager, storage and network management tools)
• Multipath storage solutions
• HP Serviceguard can be run on the VM Host system or on HP-UX guests.
Do not run applications on the VM Host system, such as Oracle, Workload Manager (WLM),
and so forth. Integrity VM installation modifies kernel parameters, making the system unsuitable
for running applications. Regardless of whether guests are running or not, do not run applications
on the VM Host system.
A guest running on a virtual machine runs the way it does on a physical system. By allocating
virtual resources, you provide the guest operating system and applications with access to memory,
CPUs, network devices, and storage devices as if they were part of a dedicated system.
Typical software you can run on a guest includes the following:
• HP-UX 11i V2 or V3 Foundation Operating Environment (FOE)
• Windows 2003 for Integrity Servers (Enterprise edition) SP1 and SP2
• Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition Advanced Server Release 4 update 4 and update 5
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for HP Integrity servers SLES 10 update 1
• Software installation tools (Ignite-UX and Software Distributor-UX)
• System performance monitoring tools (GlancePlus, Measureware, OpenView Operations
Agent)
Applications do not have to be changed to run on a guest OS. Operating system patches and
hardware restrictions apply to guests.
Do not run the following types of applications on a guest:
• Integrity VM software
• Hardware diagnostic tools and support tools (should be run on the VM Host)
• Utility pricing tools (run on the VM Host)
• Capacity planning tools (run on the VM Host)
• Applications that require direct access to physical hardware (for example, disaster-tolerant
solutions)
• Multipath storage solutions
• SAN Management tools and applications that require access to serial interfaces (Integrity
VM virtualizes SCSI and Ethernet devices only)
• Auto port aggregation (APA)
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