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

9 Administering VMs.................................................................................133
9.1 Specifying VM attributes...................................................................................................133
9.1.1 VM name................................................................................................................135
9.1.2 Reserved resources...................................................................................................135
9.1.3 Virtual CPUs............................................................................................................135
9.1.4 CPU entitlement........................................................................................................135
9.1.5 Guest memory allocation...........................................................................................136
9.1.6 Virtual devices.........................................................................................................136
9.1.7 Specifying dynamic memory parameters.....................................................................137
9.1.8 Configuration limits...................................................................................................137
9.1.9 Sizing guidelines......................................................................................................138
9.1.10 Default guest settings for HP-UX.................................................................................138
9.2 Using the hpvmcreate command.......................................................................................138
9.2.1 Example of VM creation...........................................................................................140
9.3 Starting VMs..................................................................................................................141
9.4 Changing VM configurations............................................................................................142
9.5 Cloning VMs..................................................................................................................146
9.6 Stopping VMs................................................................................................................149
9.7 Removing VMs...............................................................................................................150
9.8 Troubleshooting VM creation problems..............................................................................151
10 Administering vPars...............................................................................153
10.1 Creating a vPar.............................................................................................................153
10.1.1 Specifying CPU or core min and max limits................................................................155
10.1.2 Adding and deleting CPUs or cores by total...............................................................156
10.1.3 Specifying base and floating memory.......................................................................156
10.1.4 Specifying I/O devices...........................................................................................157
10.2 Booting a vPar..............................................................................................................158
10.3 Modifying a vPar..........................................................................................................158
10.3.1 Modifying CPU and Memory resources dynamically...................................................158
10.3.2 Modifying I/O resources statically...........................................................................158
10.3.3 Modifying vPar name and number...........................................................................159
10.4 Viewing information specific to a vPar..............................................................................159
10.5 Stopping and resetting a vPar.........................................................................................159
10.6 Removing a vPar...........................................................................................................160
10.7 Deactivating a vPar configuration....................................................................................161
11 PCI OLR support on VSPs.......................................................................163
11.1 Online Addition and Deletion of PCI I/O devices...............................................................163
11.2 Use cases and benefits of PCI OLR on a VSP.....................................................................163
11.3 Dependencies and prerequisites.......................................................................................163
11.3.1 Software dependencies............................................................................................163
11.3.2 Hardware dependencies.........................................................................................163
11.4 Performing PCI OLR on a VSP..........................................................................................163
11.4.1 CRA on a VSP........................................................................................................164
11.4.2 NPIV devices.........................................................................................................164
11.4.3 DIO devices..........................................................................................................165
11.4.4 AVIO Networking devices.......................................................................................165
11.4.5 AVIO Storage devices.............................................................................................166
11.4.6 CRA logs..............................................................................................................167
11.4.7 PCI OLR failures.....................................................................................................167
11.4.8 Examples..............................................................................................................169
11.4.8.1 NPIV devices..................................................................................................170
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