HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Administrator Guide
Contents
HP secure development lifecycle....................................................................15
1 Introduction.............................................................................................17
1.1 HP-UX Virtualization Continuum...........................................................................................17
1.1.1 HP-UX Virtual Partitions................................................................................................17
1.1.2 HP Integrity Virtual Machine........................................................................................17
1.2 Technology Convergence – vPars and Integrity VM V6...........................................................17
1.3 What is new?...................................................................................................................18
1.4 vPars and Integrity VM V6 architecture.................................................................................19
1.4.1 Overview of VSP........................................................................................................19
1.4.2 Overview of Integrity VM............................................................................................20
1.4.3 Overview of vPars......................................................................................................20
1.4.4 Types of I/O.............................................................................................................20
1.4.4.1 Overview of AVIO storage...................................................................................21
1.4.4.1.1 Shared I/O................................................................................................21
1.4.4.1.2 Attached I/O.............................................................................................21
1.4.4.1.3 NPIV devices..............................................................................................21
1.4.4.2 AVIO-Networking..............................................................................................21
1.4.4.3 Direct I/O-Networking.......................................................................................22
1.5 Manageability for vPars and Integrity VM V6........................................................................22
1.6 Comparison between Integrity VM V6.3 and vPars V6.3........................................................22
1.7 vPars and Integrity VM media.............................................................................................22
1.8 Related products...............................................................................................................23
1.9 Using the vPars and Integrity VM documentation...................................................................24
1.9.1 Integrity VM commands..............................................................................................24
1.9.2 vPars commands........................................................................................................25
1.9.3 Virtual environment console.........................................................................................26
1.10 Using this manual............................................................................................................26
2 Installing HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM.......................................................29
2.1 Installation requirements for VSP..........................................................................................29
2.2 Bundle names..................................................................................................................29
2.3 Installing vPars and Integrity VM.........................................................................................29
2.4 Verifying the installation of vPars and Integrity VM V6 product................................................30
2.5 Uninstalling vPars and Integrity VM.....................................................................................31
2.6 Installing the HP-UX guest operating system..........................................................................31
2.6.1 Using golden images for guest installation....................................................................34
2.6.2 Installing VirtualBase on a vPar or VM Guest................................................................35
2.6.3 Other patches required..............................................................................................35
2.6.4 Applications that can be run on a vPar or Integrity VM...................................................35
2.6.5 Applications to be avoided on a vPar or Integrity VM....................................................36
3 Configuring VSP.......................................................................................37
3.1 VSP cores.........................................................................................................................37
3.1.1 VSP pool...................................................................................................................38
3.1.2 vPars and Integrity VM pool........................................................................................38
3.2 Hyperthreading on the VSP................................................................................................38
3.3 VSP memory....................................................................................................................39
3.3.1 Memory overhead estimation......................................................................................39
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