HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes

1 Introduction
Thank you for installing HP Integrity Virtual Machines (also called Integrity VM). This Release
Notes document describes the changes in this version of the Integrity VM product.
HP Integrity Virtual Machines A.03.00 is installed on HP Integrity servers or nPartitions running
HP-UX 11i V2 (September 2006 [0609] or later). For complete information about the requirements
for installing Integrity VM, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and
Administration manual.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• “New Features and Enhancements in This Version of Integrity VM” (page 13)
• “Using Linux Guests” (page 14)
• “Dynamic Memory” (page 14)
• “Creating Virtual Machine Administrator and Operator Accounts” (page 14)
• “Using P2V Workload Migration” (page 14)
• “Integrity VM Command Changes” (page 14)
• “Guest Management Software” (page 16)
1.1 New Features and Enhancements in This Version of Integrity VM
This section describes how the current version of Integrity VM has been enhanced over previous
versions. For more information about these enhancements, refer to the HP Integrity Virtual
Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.
• Guests can run any of the following operating systems:
— HP-UX 11.23 (May 2005 [0505] or later)
— HP-UX 11.31
— Windows 2003 (Enterprise or Datacenter edition)
— RedHat Linux Enterprise Edition Advanced Server Release 4 update 4.
• Administrators can dynamically change the size of memory allocated to the HP-UX guest.
This feature includes:
— Changes to the hpvmcreate, hpvmmodify, and hpvmclone commands to configure
the guest.
— Changes to the hpvmstatus command to view dynamic memory data for a configured
guest.
— A new guest-only utility (hpvmmgmt) to view guest dynamic memory data.
• Networking enhancements include:
— Administrators can change the physical network interface card (pNIC) for a vswitch
using the -C option to the hpvmnet command.
— Administrators can clone the selected vswitch to a newly named vswitch using the —N
option to the hpvmnet command. The cloned vswitch will have the same VLAN port
information configuration data as the parent vswitch.
• Multiple virtual machine administrator and operator accounts can be created to manage
virtual machines remotely.
• Workloads can be migrated from a physical Integrity system or nPar to a virtual machine
using the P2V (physical to virtual) assistant.
• Attached I/O (tape, changer, CD/DVD burner) can be used as backing storage by all types
of guests.
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