HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Administrator Guide

9 Administering VMs
After installing the vPars and Integrity VM product, you can create VMs and virtual resources for
the VMs to use.
NOTE: The Integrity VM commands can be used to configure and manage both vPars and VM.
They support overall product features. HP recommends using Integrity VM commands over vPar
commands for managing vPars or VM.
9.1 Specifying VM attributes
When you create a new VM, you specify its attributes. Later, you can change the VM attributes.
You can set the attributes of a VM using the following commands:
• hpvmcreate, which creates a new VM.
• hpvmclone, which creates a new VM based on an existing VM.
• hpvmmigrate, which moves a VM from one system to another.
• hpvmmodify, which modifies an existing VM.
All these commands accept the same options for specifying VM attributes. Table 17 (page 133) lists
each attribute and command option.
Table 17 Attributes of a VM
Default valueCommand optionDescriptionVM attributes
The VM name can have up to
255 alphanumeric characters,
including A-Z, a-z, 0–9, the
dash (—), the underscore (_),
and period (.). The VM name
must not start with a dash.
-P vm-nameYou must specify a name when
you create or modify a VM.
You cannot modify this
attribute.
VM name
If you do not specify the
operating system type, it is set
to UNKNOWN.
-O os_type
[:version]
Specify the guest operating
system type. For more
information about guest
operating system type, see
Section 13.7 (page 223).
Operating system type
If you do not specify this
attribute when you create the
VM, the default is one vCPU.
-c number_vcpusYou can specify the number of
CPUs that a VM can use.
Virtual CPUs (vCPUs)
If not specified, by default a
shared VM is created.
-x vm_type=typeSpecify the type of guest. For
more information about VM
type, see Section 13.4
(page 220).
VM type
If you do not specify this
attribute when you create the
VM, the default is 10%.
-e
percent[:max_percent]
nl
-E
cycles[:max_cycles]
The minimum amount of
processing power guaranteed
to the VM.
CPU entitlement
If you do not specify this
attribute when you create the
VM, the default is 2 GB.
-r amountTotal amount of memory
allocated to the VM.
Memory
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