HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes Version A.03.50
— Changes to the hpvmnet command. The changes include displaying the adapter type
for each port defined on the vswitch and getting port specific statistics.
— Changes to the hpvmresources and hpvmstatus manpages to include the new AVIO names
for guest creation: avio_lan, and avio_stor.
— Change to the hpvmcollect command to add values for AVIO LANs and storage.
— Changes to the hpvmcreate, hpvmclone, and hpvmmodify commands to add the
designation for an AVIO network adapter and an AVIO storage adapter on a guest.
The network adapter designator is avio_lan or aviolan, and the storage adapter
designator is avio_stor or aviostor. For more information about AVIO, see the
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration Version A.03.50
manual.
— Support for the AD386A 10GBe adapter.
— Changes to the hpvmclone command to clone guests with additional AVIO network
or storage devices.
For information about installing AVIO drivers, see HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation,
Configuration, and Administration Version A.03.50 manual.
• AVIO storage support for Logical Volume backing storage devices (virtual LvDisk) on
HostAVIOStor B.11.23.0712.01 and later.
• AVIO now supports Active-Passive configuration on EVA GL series (3000/5000) starting
with HostAVIOStor B.11.23.0712.01. This is in addition to the already supported Active-Active
configuration on EVA GL and EVA XL series (4000/6000/8000). SecurePath Active-Passive
is now supported in addition to Active-Active on AVIO. For more information, see Section
8.17.
• Hierarchy checking
The hpvmdevmgmt command has been changed to provide hierarchy checking by adding
a host-file-system directory to the device database as a restricted device. All files, devices,
and subdirectories under a restricted directory are also restricted. A directory might not be
restricted if a file, device, or subdirectory is already in use by a guest. Note that the /etc
and the /stand directories are added by default.
• New public APIs defined in /opt/hpvm/include/hpvm_api_public.h for host and
guests:
The following APIs have been added to Integrity VM:
— hpvm_api_server_check — Checks if running on an Integrity VM server system.
— hpvm_api_virtmach_check — Checks if running on an Integrity VM virtual machine.
— hpvm_api_version_get — Gets the version string of an Integrity VM server or virtual
machine.
— hpvm_api_my_uuid_get — Gets the uuid for this running Integrity VM server or
virtual machine.
— hpvm_api_server_uuid_get — Gets the uuid for the Integrity VM server of the
virtual machine running this API.
— hpvm_api_server_hostname_get — Gets the host name for the Integrity VM server
of the virtual machine running this API.
For information about the new public APIs, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation,
Configuration, and Administration A.03.50 manual.
• The EFI direct tape boot functionality has been added to Integrity VM. If you use the Ignite
make_tape_recovery utility on the HP-UX guest to make a backup tape of that guest system,
you can use the backup tape to boot from EFI to perform the restore and reinstallation from
the backup tape.
14 Introduction