HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Administrator Guide

• The VirtualBase software is installed in the /opt/hpvm/guest-images directory.

• The Integrity VM software and data files are installed in the /var/opt/hpvm directory.

• The Integrity VM commands are installed in the /opt/hpvm/bin directory.

You can now create virtual machines using the hpvmcreate command, as described in Chapter 7

(page 75).

Integrity VM installation modifies certain kernel parameters. For this reason, you should not install

any other applications besides Integrity VM on the VSP system, regardless of whether guests are

running or not. The system management applications should be installed on the VSP, like SMH

and Glance. The kernel parameters that are modified when you install Integrity VM are:

• maxdsiz_64bit – 34359738368 (4294967296)

• filecache_min – 134217728 or 1% (1707212800)

• filecache_max – 134217728 or 1% (17072390144)

• lockable_mem_pct – 99% (90%)

• base_pagesize — 64 (4)

• vx_ninode — 131072 (0)

• vxfs_ifree_timelag — -1 (0)

• vxfs_bc_bufhwm — 64000 (0)

The first value is the modified value and the number in parenthesis is the default.

NOTE: With vPars and Integritry VM V6.1, the VSP has VSP has 64K as the base_pagesize

tunable setting. For more details, see the white paper on this topic, Tunable Base Page Size

available from:

http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs/

3.2 Bundle names

The HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.1 release contains the following software:

• BB068AA — B.06.10.00 vPars and Integrity VM

• VirtualBase — Base virtualization software for vPar/VM and VSP.

• HP-UX 11i V3 — HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Server Operating Environment [VSE-OE] that is

provided for the VSP system

• PRM-Sw Krn — Installed as part of the HP-UX VSE-OE and required by Integrity VM

3.3 Inhibitors to installing HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM

The following items block HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM Version 6.1 from installing:

• Hierarchical Files System (HFS) files in the /etc/fstab file. You must remove any entries

before installing Integrity VM. Check for these entries with the following command:

# grep -i hfs /etc/fstab

• HP System Insight Manager (HP SIM) Server bundle. Check for this product with the following

command:

# swlist | grep HPSIM-HP-UX

• HP-UX Virtual Partitions bundle, v5.0 or earlier. Check for this product with the following

command:

# swlist -l bundle | grep VirtualPartition

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