HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i v3 VSP — HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release◦
◦ For vPars: HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 and March 2012 guests (Intel® Itanium®
Processor 9300 series VSPs only)
◦ For VMs: HP-UX 11i v3 March 2010 through March 2012 guests
• Support for vPars and Integrity VM functionality in a single, common, easy-to-use management
environment.
• Support for the direct I/O (DIO) networking functionality.
• Support for Matrix OE 7.0 fluid cross-technology logical servers with virtual machines. For
additional details, see the HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Logical Server Management
User Guide.
1.2 Version Support
The following table lists support in HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.1 for the various HP Integrity
servers and HP Integrity server blades:
Table 1 vPar, VM and VSP Support
VSP on HP
Integrity Servers
(9000 Series)
VSP on HP
Integrity rx2800 i2
Servers
1
VSP on HP
Integrity
Superdome 2
1
VSP on HP
Integrity server
blades
1
Virtual MachinesVirtual Partitions
YesNoNoYesHP-UX 11i v3
1003
N.A.
YesYesYesYesHP-UX 11i v3
1009
N.A
YesYesYesYesHP-UX 11i v3
1103
N.A.
YesYesYesYesHP-UX 11i v3
1109
HP-UX 11i v3
1109
Integrity VM —
Yes
vPars — No
YesYesYesHP-UX 11i v3HP-UX 11i v3
1
Support for the latest Intel® Itanium® Processor 9300 Series
1.3 Changes in Support
The following list contains features that are not supported in V6.1:
• Use of the hpvmupgrade and the pv2assist commands.
• Use of VIO.
In addition, no new I/O hardware, such as FCoE CNA's is supported with VIO. To determine
if your VMs are using VIO, run hpvmstatus -d for all your guests. Look for storage devices
that use scsi and look for network devices that use lan:
# hpvmstatus -P guestname -d | grep -w scsi
# hpvmstatus -P guestname -d | grep -w lan
A VLAN tag can be configured on an AVIO localnet vswitch port. The guest lan bound to this
vswitch port can be used only to communicate with another guest lan bound to a vswitch port
that does not have a VLAN tag configured.
8 Introduction