HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5 - HP Business Support Center

Contents
About This Document...................................................................................11
Intended Audience..................................................................................................................11
New and Changed Information in This Edition............................................................................11
Typographic Conventions.........................................................................................................11
Document Organization..........................................................................................................11
Related Information.................................................................................................................12
Publishing History...................................................................................................................12
HP Insight Remote Support.......................................................................................................13
HP Encourages Your Comments................................................................................................14
1 Introduction.............................................................................................15
1.1 New Features and Enhancements in This Version of Integrity VM..............................................16
1.2 Guest and VM Host Support...............................................................................................16
1.3 Guest Management Software..............................................................................................17
2 Installation Notes.....................................................................................19
2.1 Installing Integrity VM........................................................................................................19
2.2 Changes and Issues in This Release.....................................................................................19
2.2.1 Stop Guests Before Installing PHSS_41411 Patch.............................................................19
2.3 Known Issues and Information.............................................................................................19
2.3.1 After Installation, Integrity VM Might Hang Upon Reboot................................................20
2.3.2 Unable to Communicate with the FSS Agents Messages in
/var/opt/hpvm/common/command.log .............................................................................20
2.3.3 Compatibility of Insight Dynamics - VSE V6.0 with Integrity VM V4.2.5............................20
2.3.4 Warning Messages That Can be Ignored.....................................................................20
2.3.5 Software Failures on VM Host Due to Use of Large base_pagesize Tunable.......................20
2.3.6 HP-UX Installation and Update Failures When Using Physical Installation Media................20
2.3.7 After Upgrading to 11i v3, Guests Cannot Start Due to Missing USB DVD Backing
Device..............................................................................................................................21
2.3.8 HPVM-Guest Bundle on HP-UX Guests No Longer Reduces Value of dma32_pool_size.......22
2.3.9 Clicking Veritas Enterprise Administrator Link on the System Management Homepage Might
Result in VEA Abort and Core Dump....................................................................................22
2.3.10 Failures in Key Applications.......................................................................................23
2.3.11 Installing the Migration Tools Including hpvmmigrate and Physical-to-Virtual Assist Tools.....23
2.3.12 Limitations When using HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager with Integrity VM
V4.2.5.............................................................................................................................23
2.3.13 Installing the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Product Over the Evaluation Software..............24
2.3.14 Do Not Install Applications on the VM Host System.......................................................24
2.3.15 Do Not Install Integrity VM on a Virtual Partition...........................................................26
2.3.16 Do Not Install Windows as Alternate Boot on a VM Host System....................................26
2.3.17 Trunking Software.....................................................................................................26
2.3.18 Warning During Startup if HP SIM is Installed..............................................................26
2.3.19 Patch PHSS_41543 Must be Installed Prior to Guest Activation........................................26
2.4 HP-UX Patches Required in the VM Host...............................................................................27
2.5 Patches Required in the HP-UX Guest...................................................................................32
2.6 Patches Required for Ignite/UX Servers................................................................................35
2.7 Patches Required for Windows Guests.................................................................................35
2.8 Patches Required for Red Hat Linux Guests...........................................................................36
2.9 Patches Required for SUSE Enterprise Linux Guests.................................................................36
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