HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes

6.11.6 Using Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager) to Manage Distributed Guests...............40
6.11.7 Polling Interval for Virtual Machine Serviceguard Nodes....................................................40
6.12 Managing Guests using gWLM.....................................................................................................41
7 Networking Information..............................................................................................43
7.1 Vswitches Are Always in SHARED Mode......................................................................................43
7.2 Do Not Use the HP A5506B PCI 10/100Base-TX 4 Port Interface for Virtual Networking.............43
7.3 MAC Address Validation Can Be Enhanced...................................................................................43
7.4 Auto Port Aggregation (APA) is Supported on the VM Host, Not on the Guest...........................43
7.5 Do Not Run Applications that Set Network Devices into Promiscuous Mode..............................43
7.6 Do not Turn on Checksum Offloading (CKO) on the Physical Network Interface Backing the
Vswitch.................................................................................................................................................43
7.7 Do Not Turn on TSO on the VM Host and on HP-UX Guests........................................................44
7.8 Do Not Configure VLAN Vswitches on HP-UX VLANs................................................................44
7.9 For VLANs Between VM Host and Guests, Turn Off CKO............................................................44
7.10 Restarting Vswitches.....................................................................................................................44
8 Storage Information.....................................................................................................47
8.1 DMP Files Not Supported as Backing Stores .................................................................................47
8.2 Using Database Management Products on Virtual Machines........................................................47
8.3 Integrity VM Does Not Honor File Permissions on Backing Stores...............................................47
8.4 Using USB CD/DVD Devices..........................................................................................................47
8.5 The hpvmmodify Command Fails to Change a DVD.....................................................................47
8.6 Virtual FileDVD Reverts to Original Resource Statement..............................................................47
8.7 Physical Device null Assigned to Nonexistent Path.......................................................................47
8.8 Using sam on Guest Cannot Initialize Disk....................................................................................48
8.9 Extending a Logical Volume Backing Store Corrupts the Guest....................................................48
8.10 Management Limitations of Virtual SCSI Devices........................................................................48
8.11 Installing Integrity VM Clears SecurePath 3.0F SP1 Settings........................................................48
9 Migrating Virtual Machines........................................................................................49
9.1 Do Not Migrate Distributed Guests................................................................................................49
9.2 Collect CapAd Data before Migrating............................................................................................49
10 Error Logging..............................................................................................................51
10.1 Guest Log Can Grow Unbounded.................................................................................................51
10.2 Log Messages Written to Old Log File..........................................................................................51
10.3 Saved MCA or INIT Register State Can Be Inaccurate..................................................................51
10.4 Modifying the Size of the Monitor Log File..................................................................................51
10.5 Virtual Console Event Logs Different from Physical Machine Logs.............................................51
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