HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Administrator Guide

Improved performance and productivity.
Better manageability (rich CLI and GUI).
High Availability through Serviceguard Integrity Virtual Server Tool Kit.
Virtual iLO remote console for each vPar and Integrity VM instance.
With vPars and Integrity VM Version 6 the vPar solution is purely software based, unlike the earlier
vPar technologies which were vPar-monitor based or firmware based. Because the vPar technology
is integrated into the HP Integrity Virtual Machine architecture framework:
there is no direct upgrade path available from earlier versions of vPars to Version 6.
Integrity VM guests from earlier versions can be easily upgraded to Version 6.
The Version 6.3 of the product released as part of 11i v3 March 2014, is follow-on to Version
6.2.
Figure 1 (page 18) shows the details of the product evolution.
Figure 1 Product evolution
6.1.5 6.2 6.3
6.1
6.0
Integrity VM
T2767CC
HP-UX vPars & Integrity VM
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4.3
4.2.54.2
5.84.7 5.105.9
HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars)
T1335CC 5.1 to 5.6
T1335DC 5.7 to 5.10
vPar technology convergence*
T1335BC
NOTE: vPar technology convergence means that similar functionality that was offered with Classic
vPar or firmware based vPar product will be available in the vPars and Integrity VM V6.
1.3 What is new?
The V6.3 release adds support for:
Enhanced the hpvmnvram command to add network bootpath to EFI boot menu.
Maximum Integrity VM size is doubled to 32 vCPUs and 256 GB RAM.
NPIV support extended to Emulex CNA cards.
Support for online guest migration between VSP running Itanium 9300 and Itanium 9500.
PCI OLAR (Online addition and replacement of I/O cards) on Superdome 2 (SD2) servers
configured as a VSP.
Online addition of IO adapter to vPars and VM guests.
Storage I/O performance improvements and scalability for vPars and VM guests with greater
than eight vCPUs.
Online cleanup of failed, changed, or removed NPIV targets from within a vPar or VM guest.
18 Introduction