HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Administrator Guide

Maximum vcpus for an OpenVMS virtual machine = 7
Maximum available vcpus for a VM = 6
Available CPU cores for a virtual partition = 6
Available entitlement for a 1 way virtual machine = 1330 Mhz
Available entitlement for a 2 way virtual machine = 1330 Mhz
Available entitlement for a 3 way virtual machine = 1330 Mhz
Available entitlement for a 4 way virtual machine = 1330 Mhz
Available entitlement for a 5 way virtual machine = 1330 Mhz
Available entitlement for a 6 way virtual machine = 1330 Mhz
Specific display output from some Integrity VM tools, such as the hpvmstatus command, is subject
to occasional changes of form and content. Program scripts must always use machine-readable
output options (for example, hpvmstatus -M) whenever available to avoid future script
maintenance.
13.2 Monitoring Integrity VM performance
Guest and VSP performance information is displayed by the VSP hpvmsar command. In the
hpvmsar command one of the displays can be shown in a GUI-type format with four different
styles. For information about these styles, see hpvmsar manpage. Some hpvmsar command options
can be used only for HP-UX guests.
Table 30 Options to the hpvmsar command
Display descriptionOption
Default Guest and Host CPU usage display in text or GUI modes for all running
guests.
-a
Default Guest and Host CPU usage display in text or GUI modes for all guests
whether they are running or stopped.
-A
Host to Guest Storage Utilization display-D
Integrity VM core Memory Metrics display-F
Guest Dynamic Memory, Swap, Paging display-G
Host Memory, Swap, Paging display-H
Guest Interrupt display-I
Guest AVIO Network traffic by vswitch display-N
Vswitch AVIO Network traffic by Port display-S
13.3 Removing and recreating a vPar or VM guest
If you remove a vPar or VM guest configuration and recreate it using the vparcreate or
hpvmcreate command, the newly created vPar or VM guest might not have the same hardware
paths for network and storage devices. This can change the LAN instance number. In such a case,
you must update the netconf file with the new instance number. When the LAN instance number
is incorrect, the network is inaccessible and startup scripts hang until timeout.
NOTE: You might have to mount all the file systems using the mountall command to access
the editor that is required to modify the netconf file. To avoid the long boot time, boot to single
user mode and modify the netconf file with the new LAN instance number.
13.4 Specifying VM type
Use the -x vm_type=type option of the hpvmcreate command to specify the VM type. A VM
that shares CPU resources with other VM types can be the shared type. While a VM that has
exclusive access to CPU resources is the vpar. By default, the hpvmcreate command creates a
shared type guest.
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