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

• HP supported SCSI disk enclosures and arrays.
• HP supported Fibre Channel disk enclosures and arrays.
The msv2v3check command creates the log file /var/adm/msv2v3check/mmddyy_hhmm that
contains all notes, warnings, and error messages from an invocation of msv2v3check, where
mmddyy_hhmm represents the month, day, year, hour, and minute the msv2v3check utility is
started.
After the msv2v3check utility is completed, a validation result is displayed that indicates the
number of errors and warnings detected on your system configuration:
• An error is a critical message that indicates that your system does not support HP-UX 11i v3
in its current configuration. Do not ignore this message.
• A warning indicates a task that might require user action, for example, upgrading the firmware
on a disk device, or manually reviewing the firmware of a Fibre Channel disk array.
Review all warnings and make the necessary corrections before upgrading to HP-UX 11i v3.
For more information about supported I/O drivers, devices, adapters, see the documentation
available at HP Manuals.
4.1.2.2 Determining HP-UX 11i v3 memory and system disk requirements
The memory requirements of vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 vary depending on the number and size
of VMs supported by the Integrity VM server. When upgrading from an 11i v2 Integrity VM server,
carry out the following steps to determine the amount of memory required for the 11i v3 Integrity
VM server:
1. When your 11i v2 Integrity VM server is running at peak load, use the Integrity VM
hpvmstatus –s command to find out the available memory.
2. If the available memory is less than 1 GB, then it is likely that your server requires additional
memory to run the same load with 11i v3 and vPars and Integrity VM V6.3. Before upgrading,
add the appropriate amount of memory to ensure that there is at least 1 GB of memory
available during peak load.
NOTE: Different operating environments have different minimum memory requirements.
4.1.2.3 Determining version requirements for HP-UX OE and vPars and Integrity VM
When upgrading from an earlier release, support for specific guest types or backing stores might
have been removed. For support information, see the HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Release
Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-hpvm-docs.
Table 9 (page 46) lists the HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3 supported OE server upgrades.
Table 9 Supported operating environments
New 11i v3 operating environmentsOriginal 11i v2 operating environments
Base OEFoundation OE
Base OETechnical Computing OE
Virtual Server OEEnterprise OE
Data Center OEMission Critical OE
For more information about HP-UX OE, see Chapter 1 (page 17).
46 Upgrading the VSP from earlier versions of Integrity VM