HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Administrator Guide

Table 12 Configuration Limits (continued)
SupportDescription
50# virtual switches — Maximum
511# virtual NICs / vswitch
30# file backing store devices / VM or vPar — Maximum
Maximum 256# virtual AVIO storage devices /VM
Maximum 30# file backing store devices /VM
> 2TBMaximum size of backing store for AVIO (disk, lvol, file)
16Maximum # PCI functions per vParVM for DIO
7.1.15 Sizing guidelines
The sizing guidelines for Integrity Virtual Machines Version 4.0 and later are different from that of
previous releases due to several factors, including the change of VSP operating system to HP-UX
11i v3. As a result, the formulas used to calculate virtual machine capacity are outlined in the
white paper Hardware Consolidation with Integrity Virtual Machines. The sizing information and
related calculations are updated in revisions to this white paper dated September 2008 or later.
The latest version of this white paper is available from:
http://www.hp.com/go/virtualization-manuals
7.1.16 Default guest settings for HP-UX
Table 13 lists the default guest settings for HP-UX and Unknown guests. An Unknown guest is a
virtual machine that has not booted with any operating system. When an Unknown guest type
boots, the appropriate operating system type is applied to the guest configuration.
The following guest OS specific settings are applied if you specify the operating system type with
the -0 option to the hpvmcreate command.
Table 13 Guest Default Settings
Unknown Guest Operating System
Default Settings
HP-UX Guest Default Settings
1616Maximum CPUs
11Default CPUs
2 GB2 GBDefault memory
32 MB512 MB
1
Minimum memory
128 GB128 GBMaximum memory
64 MB64 MBDefault reserved memory
32 MB32 MBMinimum reserved memory
128 GB128 GBMaximum reserved memory
1
The minimum memory requirement for HP-UX 11i v2 is 512 MB. The minimum memory requirement for HP-UX 11i v3 is
1 GB (see "System Requirements" section in the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide); however, the HP-UX 11i
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