Introduction to Integrity Virtual Machines

HP Integrity Virtual Machines features
In summary, the HP Integrity Virtual Machines product offers the following features:
• Support of low to high-end HP Integrity servers and blades: HP Integrity rx3600, rx6600, rx7620,
rx7640, rx8620, rx8640, Integrity Superdome sx1000 and sx2000 servers; BL60p and BL860p
blades; and future Integrity servers and blades
• Support for numerous virtual machines, both uni-processor and SMPs, on a single Integrity server
• Different virtual machines can run guest operating systems – HP-UX, Linux® or Windows® – with
different versions or patch levels on the same Integrity server
• Designed for virtual machines running guests with different operating systems, supporting HP-UX
11i v2, HP-UX 11i v3, Windows Server 2003®, and Red Hat 4 in version 3.0.
• Fine-grained allocation of physical CPU resources to virtual CPUs
• Physical CPU sharing – supports multiple virtual CPUs per physical CPU
• Dynamic, automatic reallocation of physical CPU resources to virtual CPUs based on utilization and
configurable guaranteed allocations
• Dynamic memory reallocation
• Guest OS fault and security isolation
• Virtual machine management isolation – dynamic configuration, boot, reboot, and shutdown
without interfering with existing virtual machine operations
• Centralized creation, deletion, replication, and overall management of virtual machines
• Complete software command-line interface
• Shared I/O
• Multiple options for virtual disk support on host:
– RAID array LUN
– Physical disk / partition
– Logical volume
– File
• Virtual read-only DVD backed by host DVD or (ISO) file
• Direct attachment to SCSI and fibre channel tape, optical media drives, and media changers
• Dynamic online addition and removal of mass storage, including virtual disk, virtual DVD and direct
attachment devices
• Virtual Ethernet switch configurability, including support for VLAN configuration and isolation of
individual virtual ports
• Offline migration of virtual machines from one Integrity system to another
• Virtual console available on all virtual machines with virtualized Intelligent Platform Management
Interface (IPMI)
• Full-featured web-based user interface
• Fully supported and serviced by HP