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

11.2.3 Virtual-to-Physical Cluster..................................................................................................156
11.2.4 Configuring VMs as Serviceguard Nodes...........................................................................156
11.3 Serviceguard in VM Host Configuration....................................................................................157
11.3.1 Configuring the Integrity VM Multiserver Environment...................................................158
11.3.2 Creating Guests as Packages...............................................................................................159
11.3.3 Modifying the Package Configuration Files........................................................................161
11.3.4 Starting the Distributed Guest.............................................................................................161
11.3.5 Starting the Vswitch Monitor..............................................................................................162
11.3.6 Verifying That Distributed Guests Can Fail Over...............................................................162
11.3.7 Managing Distributed Guests.............................................................................................163
11.3.7.1 Starting Distributed Guests.........................................................................................163
11.3.7.2 Stopping Distributed Guests.......................................................................................163
11.3.7.3 Monitoring Distributed Guests...................................................................................163
11.3.7.4 Modifying Distributed Guests.....................................................................................163
11.3.8 Monitoring Network Connections......................................................................................163
11.4 Upgrading from the Integrity VM A.01.20 Toolkit......................................................................163
11.4.1 Removing the Serviceguard for Integrity VM Toolkit.........................................................164
11.4.2 Guest Toolkit Removal........................................................................................................164
11.4.3 Repackaging Guests............................................................................................................164
11.5 Troubleshooting Serviceguard with Integrity VM......................................................................165
11.5.1 VMs as Serviceguard Packages Troubleshooting................................................................165
11.5.2 Creating Distributed Guests................................................................................................166
11.5.3 Networking..........................................................................................................................166
11.5.4 Polling Interval for Virtual Machine Serviceguard Nodes..................................................167
12 Reporting Problems with Integrity VM...................................................................169
12.1 Collecting Integrity VM Data......................................................................................................169
12.1.1 Using the hpvmcollect Command on the VM Host............................................................169
12.1.2 Using the hpvmcollect Command on Guests......................................................................172
12.2 Managing the Size of the VMM Driver Log File.........................................................................173
A Integrity VM Support Policy......................................................................................175
A.1 Integrity VM Minimum Support Life...........................................................................................175
A.2 Integrity VM Upgrades................................................................................................................175
A.2.1 Integrity VM Patch Policy.....................................................................................................175
A.3 VM Host OS and Server Support ................................................................................................176
A.4 HP-UX Guest Support..................................................................................................................176
A.5 Windows and Linux Guest Support.............................................................................................177
A.6 Serviceguard Support...................................................................................................................178
A.7 Storage Interface Support.............................................................................................................179
A.7.1 Guest Attached Device Support...........................................................................................179
A.7.2 Multipathing Software Support — Virtual I/O Storage.......................................................179
A.7.3 Multipathing Software Support — Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO) Storage......................180
A.7.4 EVA Series Firmware Requirement......................................................................................180
A.8 Network Interface Support...........................................................................................................180
1 Integrity VM Manpages............................................................................................183
hpvm(5)...............................................................................................................................................184
hpvmclone(1M)...................................................................................................................................186
hpvmcollect(1M).................................................................................................................................192
hpvmconsole(1M)...............................................................................................................................196
hpvmcreate(1M)..................................................................................................................................198
hpvmdevmgmt(1M)............................................................................................................................203
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