HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Release Notes (762790-001, July 2014) (Edition: 1.6)
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Release Notes
- Contents
- HP secure development lifecycle
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installing or upgrading to HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3
- 3 New functionality and changes from earlier versions
- 3.1 New features and enhancements
- 3.1.1 Enhanced capability for emulated platform NVRAM (Non Volatile RAM)
- 3.1.2 Increased resources for Integrity VM guests
- 3.1.3 Dynamic addition of I/O devices
- 3.1.4 PCI OLR support on Superdome 2 VSPs
- 3.1.5 AVIO Networking improvements
- 3.1.6 AVIO Storage improvements
- 3.1.7 Greater flexibility for online VM migration
- 3.1.8 Improvements to Virtual Server Management
- 3.1.9 Improvements to VSP resource management
- 3.2 Changes from previous versions
- 3.1 New features and enhancements
- 4 Known problems, limitations, and workarounds
- 4.1 CPU/vCPU
- 4.2 Memory
- 4.3 Networking
- 4.3.1 Cannot remove a VLAN-based vNIC if the VLAN has been removed
- 4.3.2 hpvmhwmgmt might add ports in link aggregates into the DIO pool
- 4.3.3 DIO limitations
- 4.3.4 Known issues or limitations with DIO support for 10GigEthr-02 (iexgbe)
- 4.3.5 DIO-capable functions might become inconsistent with information in vPar or VM device database
- 4.3.6 When DIO device is assigned or removed from the DIO pool, error messages appear multiple times
- 4.4 Storage
- 4.4.1 Presenting a Logical Volume created on iSCSI devices as AVIO backing store to a guest not supported
- 4.4.2 Size change operations on a SLVM volume based backing store do not get reflected in the vPar or VM
- 4.4.3 The hpvmdevinfo command may not list the correct host to guest device mapping for legacy AVIO backing stores
- 4.4.4 Probe of NPIV HBAs for Fibre Channel targets may timeout
- 4.4.5 NPIV LUNs not shown by default invocation of ioscan
- 4.4.6 The interrupt balancing daemon must not be enabled in vPars and Integrity VM guests
- 4.4.7 Online addition of DMP device as backing store is not supported
- 4.5 VM <—> vPar conversion
- 4.6 Migration, Suspend, and Resume operations on Integrity VM guests
- 4.6.1 Use of -F with hpvmmigrate on a suspended VM can cause VM to be not runnable on both source and target
- 4.6.2 Copy of a vPar or VM might be left in runnable state if migration fails
- 4.6.3 Interrupt migration of vNICs during Online guest migration can result in network disconnectivity
- 4.6.4 Physical NIC link state change during hpvmsuspend to hpvmresume may result vNIC in down state
- 4.6.5 Offline migration of a guest- with multiple DIO resources might succeed with errors if the DIO devices are added under the same label
- 4.7 User interface—CLI
- 4.8 Known system crashes, panics, hangs and MCAs
- 5 HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM support policy
- 5.1 Support duration
- 5.2 VSP firmware requirements
- 5.3 VSP server and OS support
- 5.4 HP-UX version support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
- 5.5 Storage device support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
- 5.6 Network device support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
- 5.7 Support for migration of vPars and Integrity VMs
- 6 Support and other resources
- 7 Documentation feedback
integrated with HP Systems Insight Manager. A dedicated server is recommended to host both
HP Systems Insight Manager and HP Insight Remote Support Advanced.
Details for both versions are available at:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightremotesupport
To download the software, go to Software Depot:
http://www.software.hp.com
Select Insight Remote Support from the menu on the right.
NOTE: HP recommends using Insight Remote Support on the VSP system. Information from Insight
Remote Support running on VMs must not be used to determine the hardware state.
6.1.4 Subscription service
HP recommends that you register your product at the Subscriber's Choice for Business website:
http://www.hp.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html. After registering, you will receive an email
notification of product enhancements, new driver versions, firmware updates, and other product
resources.
6.2 Related information
The following documents [and websites] provide related information:
Table 9 Documentation and its location
WebsiteDocuments
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-hpvm-docsHP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Administrator
Guide
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docs and http://www.hp.com/
go/insightdynamics-manuals
HP-UX GUID Manager Administrator Guide
http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs and http://www.hp.com/
go/insightdynamics-manuals
• HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager User
Guide
• HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager Release
Notes
NOTE: The HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager
(VSMgr) is the graphical user interface for vPars
and Integrity VM.
http://www.hp.com/go/blades_enclosures-docs
In the main page, click HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosures or HP
BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures.
• HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator
Command Line Interface User Guide Version
3.30
• HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator User
Guide Version 3.30
• HP BladeSystem c3000 Enclosure
(whitepaper)
• HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure technologies
(whitepaper)
www.hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docsVirtual Partitions documentation
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs
In the main page, click HP-UX 11i v3.
HP-UX 11i v3 documentation
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-hpvm-docsRun Oracle OLTP workloads in HP-UX vPars and
Integrity VM v6.2 - Technical white paper
48 Support and other resources