HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2: Installation, Configuration, and Administration

A guest running on a virtual machine runs the way it does on a physical system. By allocating
virtual resources, you provide the guest operating system and applications with access to memory,
CPUs, network devices, and storage devices as if they were part of a dedicated system.
Typical software you can run on a guest includes the following:
• HP-UX 11i V2 or V3 Virtual Server Operating Environment (VSE-OE)
• Windows Server 2008 for Integrity Servers
• Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition Advanced Server Release 4 update 5
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for HP Integrity servers SLES 10 update 2
• Software installation tools (Ignite-UX and Software Distributor-UX)
• System performance monitoring tools (GlancePlus, Measureware, OpenView Operations
Agent)
Applications do not have to be changed to run on a guest OS. Operating system patches and
hardware restrictions apply to guests.
Do not run the following types of applications on a guest:
• Integrity VM software
• Hardware diagnostic tools and support tools (should be run on the VM Host)
• Utility pricing tools (run on the VM Host)
• Capacity planning tools (run on the VM Host)
• Applications that require direct access to physical hardware (for example, disaster-tolerant
solutions)
• Multipath storage solutions
• SAN Management tools and applications that require access to serial interfaces (Integrity
VM virtualizes SCSI and Ethernet devices only)
• Auto port aggregation (APA)
You must purchase licenses for any software you run on a virtual machine, including the HP-UX
operating system and any HP or third-party layered software. You can purchase the licenses for
HP software under the HP Virtualization Licensing program. For more information, contact your
HP Support representative.
Always read the product release notes before installing any software product so that you have
the latest information about changes and additions to the documentation. The following chapters
describe how to install the Integrity VM software and how to create guests to run on the VM
Host system.
1.6 Related Products
Some of the HP products that you can use with Integrity VM include:
• HP-UX operating system — Integrity VM runs on HP-UX 11i v3 Integrity systems on the
VM Host. For more information, see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide.
• HP WBEM Services for HP-UX — Many related products, such as VM Manager and gWLM,
require the VM Host system be running HP WBEM Services.
• HP Insight Dynamics — VSE (ID-VSE) for Integrity— A graphical user interface for managing
HP Integrity central managed systems (CMS). Runs under HP Systems Insight Manager.
For more information, see the HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 Getting Started Guide.
• HP Insight Global Workload Manager (gWLM) — As part of HP Insight Dynamics — VSE
(ID-VSE) for Integrity, this software product allows you to centrally define resource-sharing
policies that you can use across multiple Integrity servers. These policies increase system
utilization and facilitate controlled sharing of system resources.
Make sure the version of gWLM is appropriate for the version of Integrity VM, as described
in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes.
22 Introduction