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

For more information about HP Infrastructure Orchestration and CloudSystem Matrix for HP-UX,
see www.hp.com/go/cloudsystem.
14.2.2 Managing vPars and Integrity VMs from HP Matrix Operating Environment
Logical Server Management
A logical server is a set of configuration information that you create, activate, and move across
physical servers and VMs. It contains the logical server definition and description, including the
server compute resources (for example, number of CPU cores and amount of memory), and the
server connections to storage fabric and networks.
Most of the logical server operations (Create, Import, Move, Copy, and so on) are now supported
for Integrity VMs and vPars.
The following types of backing stores are supported for use with HP Matrix OE Logical Server
Management:
Whole disk backing stores consisting of SAN LUNs
NPIV LUNs
SLVM-based logical volumes (LVs)
For more information about the supported set of operations for vPars and Integrity VM and for
information about storage and networking configurations, see the latest HP Matrix Operating
Environment Logical Server Management User Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
14.3 Configuring guest backing storage with HP Matrix OE
This section describes how to configure the following backing stores with HP Matrix OE:
NPIV LUNs
HP Matrix OE version 7.2 onwards supports NPIV based backing stores. This is the preferred
backing store for managing Integrity vPars and VM guests as it offers various advantages as
described in Section 7.1 (page 101).
All LSM and IO operations are supported with NPIV backing store from Matrix OE 7.2
onwards.
To verify if your VSP can support NPIV, use the fcmsutil command as specified in
Section 7.4.1 (page 102).
Whole disk backing stores consisting of SAN LUNs
The supported operations for this type of backing store in LSM are Import, Move, Power On,
Power Off, and Unmanage.
NOTE: This type of backing store is not supported with Matrix Infrastructure Orchestration.
SLVM-based logical volumes (LVs)
To use SLVM-based logical volumes (LVs):
1. Create an appropriate sized SLVM volume group for the device management database using
LVM Version 2.2. For example:
Create the volume group using LVM Version 2.2:
nl
# vgcreate -V 2.2 -s 4m -S 100g /dev/slvm_v21 /dev/disk/disk61
NOTE: When using SLVM, Serviceguard must be installed, but a Serviceguard cluster does
not need to be configured.
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