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

3.1.9 Specifying Dynamic Memory Parameters
Specifies whether the new virtual machine will use dynamic memory and the values associated
with it by including the following keywords:
• dynamic_memory_control={0|1}
• ram_dyn_type={none|any|driver}
• ram_dyn_min=amount
• ram_dyn_max=amount
• ram_dyn_target_start=amount
For more information about using dynamic memory for guests, see Section 9.6 (page 130).
3.1.10 Configuration Limits
Table 3-2 lists the configuration limits for Integrity VM Version 3.5.
Table 3-2 Configuration Limits
SupportDescription
min (#pCPUs, 4)# vCPUs/VM - Maximum
20# vCPUs/pCPU — Maximum
min (20 * pCPUs, 254)# VMs per VM Host — Maximum
HP-UX limit# pCPUs in VM Host
1 GBMemory per VM — Minimum (11i v2 HP-UX)
1.5 GBMemory per VM — Minimum (11i v3 HP-UX)
64 GBMemory per VM — Maximum (HP-UX)
512 MBMemory per VM — Minimum (Windows)
32 GBMemory per VM — Maximum (Windows)_
512 MBMemory per VM — Minimum (Linux (RH))
64 GBMemory per VM — Maximum (Linux (RH))
30# virtual SCSI devices / VM — Maximum
10# virtual NICs / VM — Maximum
50# virtual switches — Maximum
64# virtual NICs / vswitch
2 TBMaximum size of backing store (disk, lvol, file)
3.2 Using the hpvmcreate Command
To create a virtual machine, enter the hpvmcreate command. Enter the —P option to specify
the virtual machine name (up to 256 alphanumeric characters). All other options are optional
and may be added to the virtual machine configuration later using the hpvmmodify command.
Table 3-3 describes the options you can use with the hpvmcreate command.
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