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

• Smart Array

— A9890A

— A9891A

• Combo

— A9782A

— A9784A

— AB465A

— AB290A

— AD193A

— AD194A

NOTE: Only HP-UX guests can use AVIO, and the backing store can be only disk or volume.

There is no attached AVIO device support, and guests can be only disk or DVD.

7.2 Configuring Integrity VM Storage

This section describes how to plan and set up Integrity VM storage, including:

• Section 7.2.1: “Integrity VM Storage Considerations” (page 85)

• Section 7.2.2: “Setting up Virtual Storage” (page 91)

7.2.1 Integrity VM Storage Considerations

When you configure storage for a virtual machine, consider the following:

• Section 7.2.1.1: “VM Storage Supportability” (page 85)

• Section 7.1.1.3: “Storage Performance” (page 81)

• Section 7.2.1.3: “VM Storage Multipath Solutions” (page 88)

• Section 7.2.1.4: “VM Storage Management” (page 88)

• Section 7.2.1.5: “VM Storage Changes” (page 90)

• Section 7.2.1.6: “Virtual Storage Setup Time ” (page 90)

The following sections explain each of these considerations.

7.2.1.1 VM Storage Supportability

Before you configure virtual machine storage, make sure the VM Host storage can be supported

by the virtual machine.

• All VM Host storage available for use by a VM must meet support requirements for the

Integrity server and OS version that comprise the VM Host. If the physical storage is not

supported by the VM Host, it is not supported for use by a virtual machine.

• All VM Host storage available for use by a VM must be connected with one of the following

adapter and driver types:

— Fibre Channel adapters supported by the TD driver

— Fibre Channel adapters supported by the FCD driver

— SCSI adapters supported by the C8xx driver

— SCSI adapters supported by the MPT driver

— SCSI adapters supported by the CISS driver

— IDE adapters supported by the SIDE driver

— USB adapters supported by the UsbScsiAdaptor driver (virtual devices only — see

Section 7.1.3.2.1 (page 83))

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