HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Release Notes (5900-2265, May 2012)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................9
1.1 New Features and Enhancements in This Version of Integrity VM..............................................11
1.2 Guest and VM Host Support...............................................................................................13
1.3 Changes in Support..........................................................................................................13
1.4 Guest Management Software.............................................................................................14
1.5 Documentation Issues.........................................................................................................15
1.6 Integrity Virtual Server Manager and GUID Manager............................................................15
2 Installation Notes.....................................................................................17
2.1 Installing Integrity VM........................................................................................................17
2.2 Changes and Issues in This Release.....................................................................................17
2.2.1 Upgrading to Integrity VM V4.3..................................................................................17
2.2.2 Compatibility of Insight Dynamics - VSE V6.0 with Integrity VM V4.3...............................17
2.2.3 Increase base_pagesize Tunable When Using Dynamic Memory Allocation or Automatic
Memory Reallocation (AMR)................................................................................................17
2.3 HP-UX Patches Required in the VM Host...............................................................................18
2.4 Patches Required in the HP-UX Guest...................................................................................18
2.5 Patches Required in the HP OpenVMS Guest........................................................................18
2.6 Recommended HP-UX Patches.............................................................................................18
3 Creating Virtual Machines.........................................................................21
3.1 Changes and Issues in the V4.3 Release..............................................................................21
3.1.1 Pass-Through Devices Used by Guest Devices Might Not be Valid After Recovery Using
Ignite...............................................................................................................................21
3.1.2 Do Not Run hpvmstart in Background When Starting Multiple Guests With Resource
Conflicts...........................................................................................................................21
4 Installing Guests.......................................................................................23
4.1 HP-UX Guests...................................................................................................................23
4.1.1 Do Not Use the iomap(7) Mechanism on HP-UX Guests...................................................23
4.2 OpenVMS Guests ............................................................................................................23
5 Using Integrity VM Commands...................................................................25
5.1 Changes and Issues in the V4.3 Release..............................................................................25
5.1.1 Integrity VM Command Changes..................................................................................25
5.1.2 Integrity VM Command Changes in V4.3......................................................................25
5.1.3 Changing Guest LAN from AVIO to VIO.......................................................................26
5.1.4 The hpvmdevmgmt Command Truncates File Sizes..........................................................26
6 Guest Administration.................................................................................27
6.1 Changes and Issues in the V4.3 Release..............................................................................27
6.1.1 Using HP Serviceguard to Manage Guests.....................................................................27
6.1.2 Serviceguard Toolkit Changes......................................................................................27
6.1.3 Unexpected Impact of Enabling Maintenance Mode.......................................................27
6.1.4 Setting up MSE after the Serviceguard Cluster................................................................27
6.1.5 Setting up the Serviceguard Cluster after MSE................................................................28
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