HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Release Notes

2 Installation Notes
This chapter contains notes about installing and upgrading HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.1
and associated software on the VSP system.
2.1 Installing HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.1
This section describes information about installing the HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.1 product
bundle and associated software on the VSP system.
HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.1 is supported on HP Integrity servers or nPartitions running HP-UX
11i v3 March 2012 release. When you upgrade or reinstall vPars or Integrity VM, guests are
stopped, but they are not removed. When the new version of HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM starts,
the virtual machines or vPars might also start, depending on the setting of the boot attribute.
NOTE: The VSP system is not a general-purpose system; it is dedicated to the hosting of virtual
machines and virtual partitions. After you install vPars and Integrity VM, no operating system or
process management reconfiguration should be performed outside those provided by the vPars
and Integrity VM interfaces. Specific examples of actions that are not supported on the VSP system
include:
• Changing priorities or scheduling attributes of processes on the VSP system.
• Modifying kernel tunables in any way.
NOTE: Do not shut down or reboot the VSP while any vPars or VMs are running.
For complete information about the requirements for installing vPars and Integrity VM, see the
HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.1 Administrator Guide at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-hpvm-docs.
2.2 Upgrading to vPars and Integrity VM V6.1
You can upgrade from HP-UX Virtual Partitions V6.0 to vPars and Integrity VM V6.1 and from
Integrity VM V3.5, V4.1, V4.2, V4.2.5, and V4.3. Upgrading from Integrity VM V4.0 is not
supported. Note, only HP-UX 11i v3 guests are supported in V6.1.
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