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

You must purchase licenses for any software you run on a virtual machine, including the HP-UX
operating system and any HP or third-party layered software. You can purchase the licenses for
HP software under the HP Virtualization Licensing program. For more information, contact your
HP Support representative.
Always read the product release notes before installing any software product so that you have
the latest information about changes and additions to the documentation. The following chapters
describe how to install the Integrity VM software and how to create guests to run on the VM
Host system.
1.5 Related Products
Some of the HP products that you can use with Integrity VM include:
• HP-UX operating system — Integrity VM runs on HP-UX 11i v2 Integrity systems. For more
information, see the HP-UX 11i v2 Installation and Update Guide.
• HP WBEM Services for HP-UX — Many related products, such as VM Manager and gWLM,
require the VM Host system be running HP WBEM Services A.02.50 or later.
• HP Integrity Virtual Server Environment (VSE) — A graphical user interface for managing
HP Integrity central managed systems (CMS). Runs under HP Systems Insight Manager.
For more information, see the HP VSE Management Software Quick Start Guide. This version
of Integrity VM requires VSE version A.02.50 or later.
• HP Integrity Essentials Global Workload Manager (gWLM) — As part of the VSE suite, this
software product allows you to centrally define resource-sharing policies that you can use
across multiple Integrity servers. These policies increase system utilization and facilitate
controlled sharing of system resources.
Make sure the version of gWLM is appropriate for the version of Integrity VM, as described
in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes.
• HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager — A graphical user interface for creating and
managing HP Integrity virtual machines. Runs under either HP System Management
Homepage (SMH) or HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) as part of the HP Integrity
VSE. For more information, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Getting Started
Guide.
• HP Integrity VM Providers — To manage Integrity VM guests with VM Manager, gWLM,
or any VSE components, install the appropriate provider software from the operating system
media or the Integrity VM guest management software kit.
• HP Integrity Support Pack and Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Service Pack 2— HP
recommends that you install the Support Pack and SP2 on all HP Integrity servers running
Windows Server 2003, 64-bit. (HP Integrity also supports Service Pack 1.) For more
information, see the HP Integrity Support Pack and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack
1 Release Notes.
• VERITAS Volume Manager— A data storage solution product that can be used to manage
the physical disks on the VM Host. For more information, see the VERITAS Volume Manager
Administrator's Guide.
• HP Auto Port Aggregation (APA) — A network switch that allows you to manage multiple
network interfaces, which can be allocated to guests. For more information, see the HP Auto
Port Aggregation (APA) Support Guide
• HP Serviceguard — A software product that allows you to create clusters of HP-UX systems
for high availability. For more information, see the Managing Serviceguard manual, and
Chapter 11 (page 153), in this manual.
1.6 Using the Integrity VM Documentation
The Integrity VM product includes several useful sources of information, whether you are
considering how to set up your virtual machines or determining how to upgrade your installation.
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