Compatibility with VM Host and Guest Applications

Using HP Storage Data Protector for guest backup

You can use Data Protector to back up the guest OS image. The Data Protector agent is installed on the VM Host, not on the guests. For more information, refer to the HP-UX 11i V2 Installation and Upgrade Guide.

Using HP GlancePlus/iX to monitor guests

You can use Glance on the VM Host to monitor guest data. However, Glance receives the CPU accounting information from the kernel. Because the VM Host can take the processor away (for example, when a hardware interrupt occurs), the time spent running other guests is reported for the state that the guest was in at the time the CPU was taken away. For more information, refer to glance(1M).

Using the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager)

The HP VM Manager product provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for Integrity VM. It is available from the HP System Management Homepage (SMH), or as part of the HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Management Software environment in the HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) on the Central Management Station (CMS). For more information about VSE, see the VSE Management Software Quick Start Guide. For more information about using VM Manager under SMH, see the Getting Started with VM Manager guide.

If you have installed the HP VM Manager software, you must upgrade it to a version that supports this version of Integrity VM.

To use VM Manager, you must install the VMProvider bundle that is provided with Integrity VM. If you upgrade Integrity VM, be sure to keep the VMProvider up to date also. If the VMProvider version does not match the Integrity VM version, the VM Manager will not work properly.

For Windows guests, you must also install the UtilProvider software (provided with the HP Integrity Support Pack for Windows). Follow the instructions for installing Windows guests in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.

Using HP Integrity Essentials Global Workload Manager (gWLM)

If you use gWLM to manage virtual machines, when you upgrade to Integrity VM A.02.00 you must also upgrade the gWLM agent and the managing gWLM Central Management Station (CMS) to A.02.50 or greater, as described in the VSE Management Software Installation and Update Guide. To upgrade the VM Host, use the following procedure:

If you install Integrity VM A.02.00 without upgrading to gWLM A.02.50 or later, and then attempt to use gWLM to manage virtual machines, the following error is reported:

Error acquiring workload management lock. Look in the the file 
/var/opt/gwlm/gwlmagent.log.0 on hostname for more details.