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5.2.14 Missing uuid or .vmid Files........................................................................................58 5.2.15 Maintain Minimum Entitlement...................................................................................58 5.2.16 Actual Running Entitlement Might Differ from Configured Entitlement...............................58 5.2.17 Duplicate Messages when Modifying Running Guests...................................................58 5.2.18 Manpages Display on Linux Guests............................................................................59 5.2.19 Integrity VM Check Might Fail Because of Bad Switch...................................................59 6 Guest Administration.................................................................................61 6.1 Changes and Issues in this Release......................................................................................61 6.1.1 Integrity VM Fully Supported with ID-VSE Logical Server Management 6.2.........................61 6.1.2 Storage Requirements for Managing Existing Integrity VM Guests with Logical Server Management....................................................................................................................62 6.1.3 Managing Existing Integrity VM Guests With LSM..........................................................62 6.2 Known Issues and Information............................................................................................62 6.2.1 Creating Virtual Machine Administrator and Operator Accounts......................................63 6.2.2 Administrator Account Names....................................................................................63 6.2.3 Guest User Accounts..................................................................................................63 6.2.4 Creating Virtual Machine Administrator and Operator Accounts......................................63 6.2.5 Reconfiguring VM Host CPUs......................................................................................64 6.2.6 Monitor Logs Might Report Warnings...........................................................................64 6.2.7 Warning Message Might Appear When Configuring or Starting Guests...........................64 6.2.8 Do Not Add User Accounts to the hpvmsys Group.........................................................65 6.2.9 Do Not Enter Ctrl/B after Starting Guest with Virtual Console.........................................65 6.2.10 How to Stop Guests..................................................................................................65 6.2.11 The hpvmconsole pc –cycle Command Occasionally Does not Complete.........................65 6.2.12 How to Recover from a Guest Hang............................................................................65 6.2.13 Using HP Serviceguard to Manage Guests..................................................................65 6.2.13.1 Suspend/Resume not Supported with Serviceguard...............................................65 6.2.13.2 Serviceguard 11.18 No Longer Supported.............................................................65 6.2.13.3 Packaging VM Guest with CFS/CVM Backing Stores as Serviceguard Packages.......65 6.2.13.4 File Permission Errors When Checking or Applying Integrity VM Serviceguard Packages to the Cluster Configuration..............................................................................66 6.2.13.5 Status of Serviceguard Controlled Distributed Guests can Lag.................................66 6.2.13.6 The hpvmsg_package Does Not Add Appropriate Entries.......................................66 6.2.13.7 Problem Displaying Truncated IPv6 Address for AVIO LAN with hpvmstatus and hpvmnet Commands......................................................................................................66 6.2.13.8 Using AVIO LAN Device in a Serviceguard Configured Guest................................66 6.2.13.9 Required HP Serviceguard Patches......................................................................66 6.2.13.10 Reenter Command to Start Packages..................................................................67 6.2.13.11 Do not Use Integrity VM Commands to Manage Distributed Guests........................67 6.2.13.12 Different Cluster Nodes Report Virtual Machine Status Differently...........................67 6.2.13.13 Syslog Entries for cmcld Can Be Ignored.............................................................67 6.2.13.14 Using Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VMMgr) to Manage Distributed Guests.........................................................................................................................67 6.2.14 Managing Guests using gWLM.................................................................................67 7 Networking Information.............................................................................69 7.1 Changes and Issues in This Release......................................................................................69 7.1.1 AVIO LAN Driver on OpenVMS Guest Does Not Support Checksum Offloading (CKO)........69 7.2 Known Issues and Information.............................................................................................69 7.2.1 Configuring VLANs on Virtual Switches.........................................................................69 7.2.1.1 Creating and Managing a vswitch with a VLAN Interface.........................................69 7.2.2 AVIO LAN Devices Left Unclaimed by OpenVMS Guest if vswitch is Down at Boot.............71 6 Contents
7.2.3 Known Limitation on OpenVMS Guests and HP-UX Guests Sharing the same vswitch..........71 7.2.4 OpenVMS Guests Support vswitch-based VLAN Configuration and Not Guest-based VLANs.............................................................................................................................71 7.2.5 Networking Interface Support for OpenVMS Guest........................................................71 7.2.6 AVIO Non-Physical Network vswitch (localnet) Restrictions...............................................71 7.2.7 Location of AVIO Networking Driver for Linux and Windows Guests.................................71 7.2.8 Changing Network Device Type on Linux Guest.............................................................71 7.2.9 Using Network Time Protocol (NTP) in Integrity VM Environments.....................................72 7.2.10 Supported Adapters..................................................................................................73 7.2.11 Calculating the Actual Utilization of the Virtual Network Card.........................................74 7.2.12 Using IP Alias Addresses in the Guest Not Supported for IPv4 or IPv6.............................74 7.2.13 Sufficient Memory for Guests with Virtual LAN Devices..................................................74 7.2.14 Vswitches Are Always in SHARED Mode......................................................................74 7.2.15 Do Not Use the HP A5506B PCI 10/100Base-TX 4 Port Interface for Virtual Networking.......................................................................................................................74 7.2.16 Integrity VM V4.1 Does not Support Gelan Drivers........................................................74 7.2.17 MAC Address Validation Can Be Enhanced.................................................................74 7.2.18 Auto Port Aggregation (APA) is Supported on the VM Host, Not on the Guest...................75 7.2.19 Do Not Run Applications that Set Network Devices into Promiscuous Mode......................75 7.2.20 Guest and Host Communication................................................................................75 7.2.21 Do Not Turn on TSO on the VM Host and on HP-UX Guests When Using VIO..................76 7.2.22 Restarting Vswitches.................................................................................................77 7.2.23 Guest AVIO Interface Behavior..................................................................................77 7.2.24 AVIO LAN Devices Not Claimed by Guest with DOWN vswitch at Boot Time..................77 7.2.25 Do Not Use TCP Software Packet Reassembly in IGSSN Driver.......................................77 7.2.26 Other Issues and Notes............................................................................................78 8 Storage Information..................................................................................79 8.1 Changes and Issues in This Release.....................................................................................79 8.2 Known Issues and Information............................................................................................79 8.2.1 Storage Interface Support for OpenVMS Guests............................................................79 8.2.2 Slow VM Host Storage Might Result in HP-UX MPT Spinlock Timeout................................79 8.2.3 HostAVIOStor and GuestAVIOStor Changes.................................................................79 8.2.4 GuestAVIOStor HBA Driver (gvsd) DLKM......................................................................80 8.2.5 Agile DSFs Change in HP-UX 11i v3 Guest When Migrating Disks Between scsi and avio_stor...........................................................................................................................80 8.2.6 Agile Device Name Recommendations.........................................................................81 8.2.7 Configuration Limits...................................................................................................81 8.2.8 Using USB CD/DVD Devices......................................................................................81 8.2.9 The sam Command might Display Incorrect Number of Disks and Paths on an HP-UX 11i v2 Guest...........................................................................................................................81 8.2.10 Crash Dump Collection Might Fail for HP-UX Guests with Attached I/O Devices (VIO).......82 8.2.11 DMP Files Not Supported as Backing Stores ................................................................82 8.2.12 Assigning a Null Device to a Resource........................................................................82 8.2.13 Integrity VM Does Not Honor File Permissions on Backing Stores....................................82 8.2.14 The hpvmmodify Command Fails to Change a DVD......................................................83 8.2.15 Virtual FileDVD Reverts to Original Resource Statement..................................................83 8.2.16 Physical Device null Assigned to Nonexistent Path.........................................................83 8.2.17 Using sam on Guest Cannot Initialize Disk...................................................................83 8.2.18 Extending SCSI Whole Disk Backing Stores.................................................................83 8.2.19 Virtual SCSI (VIO) Device Limitations...........................................................................83 8.2.20 AVIO Limitations.....................................................................................................84 8.2.20.1 iSCSI-Based Backing Stores Not Supported with Physical Volumes Under Certain Circumstances...............................................................................................................84 Contents 7
Page 1 and 2: HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5
Page 3 and 4: Contents About This Document.......
Page 5: 4.3.2 Known Issues and Information.
Page 9 and 10: 11.9 Network Interface Support.....
Page 11 and 12: About This Document The HP Integrit
Page 13 and 14: Publication Number T2767-90076 T276
Page 15 and 16: 1 Introduction Thank you for instal
Page 17 and 18: Table 1 Guest and VM Host Support (
Page 19 and 20: 2 Installation Notes This chapter c
Page 21 and 22: • You might receive a read error
Page 23 and 24: 2.3.10 Failures in Key Applications
Page 25 and 26: Serviceguard, as documented in the
Page 27 and 28: to properly run or even boot. If th
Page 29 and 30: Table 3 VM Host Patches (continued)
Page 31 and 32: Table 3 VM Host Patches (continued)
Page 33 and 34: 11i v2 0505 or later 11i v2 Intel I
Page 35 and 36: Table 5 HP-UX Guest Patches (contin
Page 37 and 38: 3 Creating Virtual Machines This ch
Page 39 and 40: 4 Installing Guests This chapter de
Page 41 and 42: • After the automatic reboot, Win
Page 43 and 44: [my_guest] vMP> in Insertable Guest
Page 45 and 46: • HP-UX 11i v2: PHCO_40685 and PH
Page 47 and 48: • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Inst
Page 49 and 50: 4.3.2.5 Before Installing the SUSE
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5.2.6.1 The hpvmdevtranslate Comman
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hpvmmodify: WARNING (test_duperr):
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NOTE: If you add new devices in the
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# useradd -r no -g users -s /opt/hp
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used by guests but requires users t
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7 Networking Information This chapt
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7.2.2 AVIO LAN Devices Left Unclaim
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incorrectly. To help mitigate this
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By default, Integrity VM makes thre
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Task Turn TSO off on lan0. Allow th
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8 Storage Information This chapter
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GuestAVIOStor: Instance numbers for
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8.2.14 The hpvmmodify Command Fails
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-H of the lunpath or tgtpath H/W Pa
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1. In the guest, execute rmsf for t
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Can't open VM /var/opt/hpvm/uuids/c
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10 Error Logging This chapter conta
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11 Integrity VM Support Policy This
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11.4 HP-UX Guest Support Type of Gu
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1 Intel® Itanium® 2 9000 Series a
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11.8.1 Guest Attached Device Suppor
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can be configured with Auto Port Ag
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A hpvmhostgdev Manpage 105
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-l Lists unused devices that can be
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