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

1.4.4.3 Direct I/O-Networking

The direct I/O networking feature supported in vPars and Integrity VM Version 6 allows

administrators to assign ports (or functions) of a NIC directly to a vPar or VM, giving the vPar or

VM direct and exclusive access to the port on the NIC. NIC ports that are configured to be used

for DIO cannot be shared and cannot be used to back a vswitch. Before an NIC port or card can

be assigned to a vPar or VM, you must first add it to the DIO pool.

For more information about using direct I/O networking, see Chapter 8 (page 111).

1.5 Manageability for vPars and Integrity VM V6

Manageability for vPars and Integrity VM V6 is provided with the dedicated GUI tools such as

Virtual Server manager (VSMgr), formerly called Virtual Machine Manager (vmmgr). The HP VSMgr

is launched through the System Management Homepage (SMH) for a single VSP, or through the

dedicated icon in the HP Systems Insight Manager CMS interface. Integrity vPars and VMs can

also be managed from the HP Matrix Operating Environment (HP MOE) suite of products, which

includes HP Logical Server Management and HP Infrastructure Orchestrator. For more information

about the tools, see Chapter 14 (page 255).

1.6 Comparison between Integrity VM V6.3 and vPars V6.3

Table 1 (page 22) provides the feature comparison between Integrity VM V6.3 and vPars V6.3.

Table 1 Comparison between Integrity VM V6.3 and vPars V6.3

vPars V6.3Integrity VM V6.3Feature

CoreSub-core (as little as 5%)CPU: Granularity

Online CPU Add or DeleteEnable or Disable, Entitlements (see

Section 5.1.2 (page 53))

CPU: Dynamic

Server cores minus VSP resources32 coresCPU: Scalability

Server RAM minus VSP resources256 GBRAM: Scalability

Online Memory Add or DeleteYes (Dynamic and Automatic)RAM: Dynamic

YesYesSTORAGE: AVIO

YesYesSTORAGE: NPIV

YesYesNETWORK: AVIO

YesYesNETWORK: DIRECT

OfflineOnline and OfflineMigration Support

Yes (ASM and CFS supported)NoOracle RAC Certified

i2 blades, SD2, rx2800 i2, i4 blades,

SD2 i4, rx2800 i4

All Integrity ServersSupported VSP Server

YESYESDynamic IO

YESYESPCI Online Replacement

Only on SD2 i2 and i4 VSPs

1.7 vPars and Integrity VM media

With the March 2008 release, HP presents a set of new operating environments for Version 3 of

HP-UX 11i. These new operating environments (OEs) provide a richer set of products and improved

choices over the original set of HP-UX 11i OEs. Customers can obtain the OE's integration, testing,

and ease of deployment, covering a powerful set of software designed to provide business-critical

virtualization.

22 Introduction