HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Administrator Guide

7. If the vPar is using HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011, install VirtualBase on the vPar from the
DVD:
swinstall –x autoreboot=true –s <DVD dsf> VirtualBase
NOTE: VirtualBase is installed by default with HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012.
3.1.3 Integrity VM installation requirements
To prepare your VSP system for Integrity VM installation, your configuration must satisfy the
hardware, software, and network requirements described in this section.
Before you install this product, read the HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.1 Release Notes, which
are available on the product media. The most up-to-date release notes are available on http://
www.hp.com/go/hpux-hpvm-docs.
You must install Integrity VM Version 6.1 software on a system that is running HP-UX 11i v3. You
can install Integrity VM on a hard partition (nPar) running HP-UX, but do not attempt to install
Integrity VM on a virtual partition (vPar). Integrity VM cannot be installed on a system that has
HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) software installed. There is a check during the Integrity VM installation
that prevents this occurrence. If you override the Integrity VM installation warnings and force this
installation, you receive errors during the start of Integrity VM.
The resources on the VSP system (such as disks, network bandwidth, memory, and processing
power), are shared by the VSP and all the running guests. Guests running simultaneously share
the remaining memory and processing power. By default, network devices are also sharable among
guests. Some resources must be made exclusive to the VSP, such as the VSP operating system boot
disk.
Table 7 describes the minimum configuration requirements for installing Integrity VM on the VSP
system.
Table 7 Requirements for installing Integrity VM V6.1
DescriptionResource
An Integrity serverComputer
HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 running on an Integrity server, as well as any appropriate
software patches (see the HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.1 Release Notes). The license
for Integrity VM includes the license for running the HP-UX 11i v3 Base Operating
Environment (BOE) on the VSP system.
Operating system
Required for network connection and configuration.Local area network (LAN)
card
An appropriate source for installing software (DVD or network connection).Source installation media
Sufficient disk space for the following:
• The VSP operating system (see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide)
• The VSP software (50 MB)
• Disk space for each guest operating system, including swap space
NOTE: The VSP requires swap space only as recommended by HP-UX 11i v3.
Otherwise, no swap space is required for Integrity VM.
• Disk space for the applications running on each guest
• 4.7 MB for each running guest as the allowance for backing up configuration files
For information about configuring storage devices for guests, see Chapter 9 (page 107).
Disk storage
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