HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager 4.1.1 Software Release Notes Abstract These release notes describe known issues and other information specific to Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager) Version 4.1.1 The audience for this document includes system administrators and others responsible for maintaining an Integrity VM host and its virtual machines. You should be familiar with the Integrity VM product and HP-UX system administration using either HP SMH or HP SIM.
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Contents 1 Overview..................................................................................................5 HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager.......................................................................................5 New in this release...................................................................................................................6 2 VM Manager limitations and known issues....................................................
1 Overview Thank you for installing HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (also called vmmgr, or VM Manager). These release notes describe known issues and other information specific to VM Manager 4.1.1. The audience for this document includes system administrators and others responsible for maintaining an Integrity VM host and its virtual machines. You should be familiar with the Integrity VM product and HP-UX system administration using either HP SMH or HP SIM.
You use Virtualization Manager to access VM Manager for viewing and modifying VM Host or virtual machine components. ◦ HP Insight Global Workload Manager software for Integrity (gWLM) is a multiple-system, multiple-OS workload manager that serves as an intelligent policy engine in Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity.
2 VM Manager limitations and known issues This chapter includes the following information in the sections indicated: Information Section Recent issues fixed in this release (A.4.1.1.83278) “Recent issues fixed in this release (A.4.1.
VM Manager screens might incorrectly identify or omit USB backing devices Applies to usage with: Both Insight Dynamics and HP SMH Standalone Integrity VM 4.x allows a USB DVD or CD drive to be used as the backing devices for a virtual DVD or CD in a virtual machine. However, in the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2008 Operating Environment Update Release (OEUR) and earlier, the drivers for the USB devices are not completely integrated into the HP-UX 11i v3 agile mass storage stack.
VM Properties General tab meters might incorrectly report “No Data” Applies to usage with: Both Insight Dynamics and HP SMH Standalone The “VM CPU Utilization”, “Network I/O”, and “Storage I/O” meters on the VM Properties General tab might display No data while the corresponding meters on the VM Host Virtual Machines tab do display data. (The meter on the VM Host Virtual Machines tab that displays VM CPU Utilization is actually labeled as the “VM vCPU Utilization” meter.
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user input Commands and other text that you type. computer output Text displayed by the computer. Enter The name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer to the same key. A sequence such as Ctrl+A indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while pressing the A key. variable The name of an environment variable, for example PATH or errno. value A value that you may replace in a command or function, or information in a display that represents several possible values.