HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Integrity Virtual Servers User Guide

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Overview
HP Serviceguard toolkit for Integrity Virtual Servers (SG IVS Toolkit) is a toolkit that facilitates
seamless integration of HP Integrity Virtual Machines with HP Serviceguard. It has a set of shell
scripts that aids in creating Serviceguard package for VM (that is VM-as-Serviceguard-packages)
and helps to start, stop, and monitor VM on VM Hosts. This toolkit enables you to configure a VM
as a package and provide high availability to the virtual machines configured in HP-UX servers.
The SG IVS Toolkit helps in Online VM migration in VM-as-Serviceguard-package configuration,
which minimizes the downtime for planned maintenance activities on VM Hosts. The toolkit protects
the Virtual Machine from unplanned VM Host hardware or software failures or failure of the Virtual
Machine.
Also, you can configure the VM guest application monitor to monitor applications on the VM guest.
It provides startup and failure detection capabilities and also VM failover for monitored VM guest
applications using HP Serviceguard.
Advantages
When VM is deployed in a Serviceguard cluster using SG IVS toolkit, it has the following
advantages:
• Provides high availability to VM.
• Provides high availability to applications running in the VM guest through VM guest application
monitoring service.
• Minimizes both planned and unplanned downtime of VM guests by using Online VM migration
and HP Serviceguard.
• Helps in migrating the workload by using Integrity VM and Serviceguard.
• Provides hardware and software consolidation to business-critical customers.
Dependencies
You must install the following on the VM Host:
• HP Integrity Virtual Machines B.04.30
• HP Serviceguard A.11.20
Prerequisites
For the SG IVS toolkit to run on the VM Host, it requires the following prerequisites:
• Supported version of HP Integrity Virtual Machines software must be installed.
• Supported version of HP Serviceguard must be installed.
Comparing HP Integrity VM Serviceguard toolkit and SG IVS toolkit
The SG IVS Toolkit is a new product that inherits the functionality from the HP Integrity VM
Serviceguard toolkit.
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