HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Administrator Guide

10.4.2 Guest-Based VLANs (AVIO)....................................................................................156
10.4.3 Configuring VLANs on virtual switches.....................................................................156
10.4.3.1 Creating and managing a vswitch with a VLAN interface....................................156
10.4.4 Configuring VLANs on physical switches..................................................................157
10.5 Using direct I/O networking...........................................................................................158
10.6 Troubleshooting network problems...................................................................................162
10.6.1 Redefining pNICs for HP-UX guests...........................................................................162
10.6.2 Troubleshooting VLAN problems..............................................................................163
10.6.3 Troubleshooting VLAN-Backed vswitches...................................................................164
10.7 Other issues and notes..................................................................................................164
11 Managing vPars/VMs...........................................................................165
11.1 Managing VMs with LSM................................................................................................165
11.1.1 Storage requirements for managing existing VMs with Logical Server Management..........166
11.1.2 Storage for deactivated volume groups not protected by VM storage management...........166
11.1.3 Managing existing VM with LSM...............................................................................167
11.1.4 Managing VMs using gWLM....................................................................................167
11.2 VM Virtualization Provider...............................................................................................167
11.2.1 Adding and removing devices..................................................................................167
11.2.2 Registering and unregistering a VM..........................................................................168
11.2.3 Changes to the hpvmmodify command......................................................................169
11.2.4 Cannot distinguish between JBOD and Remote SAN with Device Check........................169
11.2.5 Unpresenting SAN devices to Integrity VSPs...............................................................170
11.2.6 Changes to the hpvmstatus command.......................................................................170
11.3 Monitoring guests..........................................................................................................170
11.4 Monitoring Integrity VM performance...............................................................................173
11.5 Creating guest administrators and operators......................................................................174
11.5.1 Administrator account names....................................................................................176
11.5.2 vPars/VM user accounts..........................................................................................176
11.6 Using the virtual console.................................................................................................176
11.7 Using the virtual iLO Remote Console...............................................................................178
11.7.1 Configuring, deleting, and obtaining status of a virtual iLO Remote Console....................178
11.7.2 Integrity VM virtual iLO Remote Console limitations.....................................................179
11.8 Guest configuration files.................................................................................................180
11.9 Dynamic memory...........................................................................................................180
11.9.1 Managing dynamic memory from the VSP..................................................................180
11.9.1.1 Configuring a virtual machine to use dynamic memory..........................................181
11.9.1.2 Viewing dynamic memory on the VSP.................................................................182
11.9.1.3 Modifying a virtual machine's memory size on the VSP.........................................184
11.9.2 Managing dynamic memory from the guest...............................................................184
11.9.2.1 Viewing dynamic memory information from the guest...........................................184
11.9.2.2 Modifying a virtual machine's memory size from the guest...................................185
11.9.3 Troubleshooting dynamic memory problems...............................................................185
11.9.3.1 Dynamic memory restrictions.............................................................................186
11.9.3.2 VSP resource considerations.............................................................................186
11.9.3.3 VM resource considerations..............................................................................186
11.9.3.4 Specify sufficient VM memory...........................................................................186
11.9.3.5 Actual memory allocations might differ..............................................................187
11.9.3.6 Enable dynamic memory on the VM and on the VSP...........................................187
11.9.3.7 Upgrade the VirtualBase software when upgrading Integrity VM...........................188
11.9.4 Automatic memory reallocation................................................................................188
11.9.4.1 Enabling automatic memory reallocation on the VSP............................................188
11.9.4.2 Enabling automatic memory reallocation on a VM..............................................189
11.9.4.3 Viewing automatic memory reallocation.............................................................189
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