HP Integrity Virtual Machines: Installation, Configuration, and Administration Version A.03.50

Table of Contents

About This Document

Intended Audience

New and Changed Information in This Edition

Typographic Conventions

Product Naming Conventions

Document Organization

Related Information

Publishing History

HP Encourages Your Comments

1 Introduction

About HP Integrity Virtual Machines

New Features and Enhancements in This Release

Using AVIO with Integrity VM

Running Applications in the Integrity VM Environment

Related Products

Using the Integrity VM Documentation

Integrity VM Manpages

Help Files

Using This Manual

2 Installing Integrity VM

Installation Requirements

VM Host System Requirements

Bundle Names

Integrity VM Requires HP WBEM Services on the VM Host

Installation Procedure

Upgrading from Earlier Versions of Integrity VM

Verifying the Installation of Integrity VM

Removing Integrity VM

Reserving VM Host Devices

Troubleshooting Installation Problems

Error Messages During Installation

3 Creating Virtual Machines

Specifying Virtual Machine Characteristics

Virtual Machine Name

Guest Operating System Type

Virtual CPUs

Entitlement

Guest Memory Allocation

Virtual Devices

Creating Virtual Machine Labels

Specifying the Virtual Machine Boot Attribute

Specifying Dynamic Memory Parameters

Configuration Limits

Using the hpvmcreate Command

Example of Virtual Machine Creation

Starting Virtual Machines

Changing Virtual Machine Configurations

Cloning Virtual Machines

Stopping Virtual Machines

Removing Virtual Machines

Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Creation Problems

Configuration Error on Starting the Virtual Machine

4 Creating HP-UX Guests

Installing the HP-UX Guest Operating System

Installing HP-UX Guest Management Software

Troubleshooting HP-UX Guest Creation

The guest hangs in the EFI shell

5 Creating Windows Guests

Windows Guest Requirements

Installing Windows Guests

Installing from HP Reinstall (OPK) Media

Installing from Windows Media

Managing Windows Guests

Installing Integrity VM Windows Guest Management Software

Troubleshooting Windows Guest Installation

Remote desktop unable to connect

6 Creating Linux Guests

Installing Linux Guests

Preparing to Install Linux Guests

Using this Procedure

Linux Guest Installation Media

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guests from ISO Images

Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux Guests from a Boot Disk and Network Server

Installing SUSE Linux Guests from ISO Images

Installing Integrity VM Linux Guest Management Software

Managing Linux Guests

7 Creating Virtual Storage Devices

Introduction to Integrity VM Storage

Integrity VM Storage Goals

Integrity VM Storage Architectures

Integrity VM Storage Implementations

Configuring Integrity VM Storage

Integrity VM Storage Considerations

Setting up Virtual Storage

Using Integrity VM Storage

Integrity VM Storage Roles

Integrity VM Storage Use Cases

8 Creating Virtual Networks

Introduction to Virtual Network Configuration

Creating and Managing vswitches

Creating vswitches

Changing vswitches

Cloning vswitches

Deleting vswitches

Recreating vswitches

Starting vswitches

Halting vswitches

Managing vNICs

Removing vNICs

Configuring VLANs

Cloning Guests with VLAN Information

Displaying VLAN Information

Configuring VLANs on Physical Switches

Troubleshooting Network Problems

Redefining pNICs for HP-UX Guests

AVIO Supported Ethernet Cards

Troubleshooting VLAN Problems

9 Managing Guests

Monitoring Guests

Creating Guest Administrators and Operators

Installing the Guest Management Software

Using the Virtual Console

Guest Configuration Files

Dynamic Memory

Managing Dynamic Memory from the VM Host

Managing Dynamic Memory from the Guest

Troubleshooting Dynamic Memory Problems

Integrity VM Log Files

Managing the Device Database

The Device Database File

Using the hpvmdevmgmt Command

HP AVIO Stor EFI Driver Enumeration Policy

10 Migrating Virtual Machines

Introduction to Virtual Machine Migration

Migration Guests from VM Host to VM Host

Using the hpvmmigrate Command

Example of the hpvmmigrate Command

Network and Storage Migration Considerations

Network Configuration Considerations

Storage Configuration Considerations

Security Considerations

Migrating Guests from Physical to Virtual Machines

Requirements for Migrating a Workload

Using the p2vassist Utility

Troubleshooting P2V Problems

11 Using HP Serviceguard with Integrity VM

Introduction to HP Serviceguard with Integrity VM

VMs as Serviceguard Nodes Configurations

Cluster in a Box

Virtual-to-Virtual Cluster

Virtual-to-Physical Cluster

Configuring VMs as Serviceguard Nodes

Serviceguard in VM Host Configuration

Configuring the Integrity VM Multiserver Environment

Creating Guests as Packages

Modifying the Package Configuration Files

Starting the Distributed Guest

Starting the Vswitch Monitor

Verifying That Distributed Guests Can Fail Over

Managing Distributed Guests

Monitoring Network Connections

Upgrading from the Integrity VM A.01.20 Toolkit

Removing the Serviceguard for Integrity VM Toolkit

Guest Toolkit Removal

Repackaging Guests

Troubleshooting Serviceguard with Integrity VM

VMs as Serviceguard Packages Troubleshooting

Creating Distributed Guests

Networking

Polling Interval for Virtual Machine Serviceguard Nodes

12 Reporting Problems with Integrity VM

Collecting Integrity VM Data

Using the hpvmcollect Command on the VM Host

Using the hpvmcollect Command on Guests

Managing the Size of the VMM Driver Log File

A Integrity VM Support Policy

Integrity VM Minimum Support Life

Integrity VM Upgrades

Integrity VM Patch Policy

VM Host OS and Server Support

HP-UX Guest Support

Windows and Linux Guest Support

Serviceguard Support

Storage Interface Support

Guest Attached Device Support

Multipathing Software Support — Virtual I/O Storage

Multipathing Software Support — Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO) Storage

EVA Series Firmware Requirement

Network Interface Support

Integrity VM Manpages

hpvm(5) - HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM).

hpvmclone(1M) - Create a new virtual machine that is a copy of an existing virtual machine.

hpvmcollect(1M) - Collects crash dumps, logs, system status, and configuration on the VM Host and guests for post-mortem analysis.

hpvmconsole(1M) - Connect to the console of a virtual machine.

hpvmcreate(1M) - Create a new Integrity Virtual Machines virtual machine.

hpvmdevmgmt(1M) - Manage the devices that are associated with the VM Host and the guests.

hpvminfo(1M) - Display information about the Integrity VM environment.

hpvmmigrate(1M) - Migrate a virtual machine to a different VM host.

hpvmmgmt(1M) - Manage dynamic data within the Integrity VM guest environment.

hpvmmodify(1M) - Rename a virtual machine or modify the attributes of a virtual machine.

hpvmnet(1M) - Create and control an Integrity Virtual Machines virtual network switch (vswitch).

hpvmpubapi(3) - Integrity VM public application interface descriptions.

hpvmremove(1M) - Remove an Integrity Virtual Machines virtual machine.

hpvmresources(5) - Specifying virtual storage and virtual network devices.

hpvmstart(1M) - Start a virtual machine.

hpvmstatus(1M) - Display status information about one or more virtual machines.

hpvmstop(1M) - Stop a virtual machine.

p2vassist(1M) - Physical to virtual migration assistant.

Glossary

Index