HP Integrity Virtual Machines Version 4.2 Release Notes

6 Guest Administration...................................................................................................61
6.1 Changes and Issues in this Release.................................................................................................61
6.2 Known Issues and Information.......................................................................................................61
6.2.1 Specifying Maximum Entitlements.........................................................................................61
6.2.2 gWLM and Integrity VM Incompatibility...............................................................................61
6.3 Creating Virtual Machine Administrator and Operator Accounts.................................................61
6.4 Administrator Account Names.......................................................................................................61
6.5 Guest User Accounts.......................................................................................................................61
6.6 Creating Virtual Machine Administrator and Operator Accounts.................................................62
6.7 Reconfiguring VM Host CPUs........................................................................................................63
6.8 Monitor Logs Might Report Warnings............................................................................................63
6.9 Warning Message Might Appear When Configuring or Starting Guests.......................................63
6.10 Do Not Add User Accounts to the hpvmsys Group.....................................................................63
6.11 Do Not Enter Ctrl/B after Starting Guest with Virtual Console....................................................63
6.12 HP-UX 11i v3 Guests Might Panic with a NaT_hndler: kernel NaT Consumption Fault............63
6.13 How to Stop Guests.......................................................................................................................64
6.14 The hpvmconsole pc –cycle Command Occasionally Does not Complete...............................64
6.15 How to Recover from a Guest Hang.............................................................................................64
6.16 Using HP Serviceguard to Manage Guests...................................................................................64
6.16.1 Serviceguard 11.18 No Longer Supported............................................................................64
6.16.2 Packaging VM Guest with CFS/CVM Backing Stores as Serviceguard Packages................64
6.16.3 File Permission Errors When Checking or Applying Integrity VM Serviceguard Packages
to the Cluster Configuration............................................................................................................65
6.16.4 Status of Serviceguard Controlled Distributed Guests can Lag............................................65
6.16.5 The hpvmsg_package Does Not Add Appropriate Entries..................................................65
6.16.6 Problem Displaying Truncated IPv6 Address for AVIO LAN with hpvmstatus and
hpvmnet Commands......................................................................................................................65
6.16.7 Using AVIO LAN Device in a Serviceguard Configured Guest...........................................65
6.16.8 Required HP Serviceguard Patches.......................................................................................65
6.16.9 Reenter Command to Start Packages....................................................................................65
6.16.10 Do not Use Integrity VM Commands to Manage Distributed Guests................................65
6.16.11 Different Cluster Nodes Report Virtual Machine Status Differently..................................66
6.16.12 Syslog Entries for cmcld Can Be Ignored...........................................................................66
6.16.13 Using Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VMMgr) to Manage Distributed Guests.......66
6.17 Managing Guests using gWLM.....................................................................................................66
7 Networking Information..............................................................................................67
7.1 Changes and Issues in This Release................................................................................................67
7.1.1 AVIO LAN Devices Left Unclaimed by OpenVMS Guest if vswitch is Down at Boot..........67
7.1.2 Known Limitation on OpenVMS Guests and HP-UX Guests Sharing the same vswitch......67
7.1.3 OpenVMS Guests Support Only vswitch-based VLAN Configuration and Not Guest-based
VLANs.............................................................................................................................................67
7.1.4 Networking Interface Support for OpenVMS Guest..............................................................67
7.1.5 AVIO Non-Physical Network vswitch (localnet) Restrictions................................................67
7.2 Known Issues and Information.......................................................................................................68
7.2.1 Location of AVIO Networking Driver for Linux and Windows Guests.................................68
7.2.2 Changing Network Device Type on Linux Guest...................................................................68
7.2.3 Using Network Time Protocol (NTP) in Integrity VM Environments....................................68
7.2.4 Supported Adapters................................................................................................................69
7.2.5 Calculating the Actual Utilization of the Virtual Network Card............................................70
7.2.6 Using IP Alias Addresses in the Guest Not Supported for IPv4 or IPv6................................70
7.2.7 Sufficient Memory for Guests with Virtual LAN Devices......................................................70
7.2.8 Vswitches Are Always in SHARED Mode..............................................................................70
7.2.9 Do Not Use the HP A5506B PCI 10/100Base-TX 4 Port Interface for Virtual Networking.....71
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