Designing High Availability Solutions with HP Serviceguard and HP Integrity Virtual Machines

Glossary

Term Definition

Integrity VM HP Integrity Virtual Machines product

VM Virtual hardware system, implemented with software, representing a collection of virtual hardware devices

VM host A physical system that includes a host Operating System and Integrity VM Software for executing one or

more VM guests

VM guest A VM and its operating system running on a VM host

Guest OS Operating system instance installed on the virtual machine

Physical node A single server or nPar (hard partition)

Serviceguard HP product for creating high availability clusters of HP 9000 or HP Integrity servers

SG-IVS HP Serviceguard toolkit for Integrity Virtual servers

Package A grouping of application services (individual HP-UX processes) under Serviceguard

NPIV N_Port ID virtualization

PI Portable image

SGeSAP Serviceguard extension for SAP

For more information

To know more HP solutions, visit:

• HP Serviceguard solutions for HP-UX 11i: www.hp.com/go/serviceguardsolutions

• HP Serviceguard solutions for Linux: www.hp.com/go/sglx

• HP Partitioning Continuum for HP-UX 11i: www.hp.com/go/partitioning

• HP Integrity Virtual Machines: www.hp.com/go/integrityvm

• Matrix Operating Environment for HP-UX: www.hp.com/go/vse

For technical documentation:

• HP Serviceguard solutions for HP-UX 11i and Linux: www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs and

www.hp.com/go/linux-serviceguard-docs

• HP Integrity Virtual Machines and Online VM Migration: www.hp.com/go/hpux-hpvm-docs

HP Serviceguard solutions are meant for you whether you are on HP-UX

ww w.hp.com/go/serviceguardsolutions or Linux w ww.hp.com/go/sglx.

Reduce cost and achieve greater utilization of existing resources with HP Integrity virtual

machines, visit ww w.hp.com/go/integrityvm.