HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Integrity Virtual Servers User Guide (June 2013)

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Overview
HP Serviceguard toolkit for Integrity Virtual Servers (SG IVS toolkit) is a toolkit that facilitates
seamless integration of HP-UX vPars and HP Integrity Virtual Machines with HP Serviceguard. It
has a set of shell scripts that aids in creating Serviceguard package for VM or vPar (that is VM or
vPar-as-Serviceguard-packages) and helps to start, stop, and monitor VM or vPar on VM or vPar
Hosts. This toolkit enables you to configure a VM or vPar as a package and provide high availability
to the virtual machines configured in HP-UX servers.
NOTE: This document refers to vPars that is created using the product bundle BB068AA.
The SG IVS toolkit helps in Online VM migration in VM-as-Serviceguard-package and VM as a
Serviceguard node configuration, which minimizes the downtime for planned maintenance activities
on VM Hosts. The toolkit protects VMs or vPars from unplanned VMs or vPars Host hardware or
software failures or failure of the VMs or vPars.
Also, you can configure the VM or vPar guest application monitor to monitor applications on the
VM or vPar guest. It provides startup and failure detection capabilities and also VM or vPar failover
for monitored VM or vPar guest applications using HP Serviceguard.
The SG IVS toolkit for HP-UX 11i v3: Annual Release, March 2012 is available for free download
at http://software.hp.com —> HP-UX 11i Software —> High Availability
Advantages
When VMs or vPars is deployed in a Serviceguard cluster using SG IVS toolkit, it has the following
advantages:
• Provides high availability to VMs or vPars.
• Provides high availability to applications running in the VM or vPar guest, through the VM or
vPar guest application monitoring service.
• Minimizes both planned, and unplanned downtime of VM guests by using Online VM migration
and HP Serviceguard respectively.
• 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 Host:
• HP Integrity Virtual Machines B.04.30, or HP-UX vPars B.06.1X or HP-UX vPars B.06.20 or
later.
• HP Serviceguard A.11.20
Prerequisites
For the SG IVS toolkit to run on the VM or vPar Host, it requires the following prerequisites:
• Supported version of HP Integrity Virtual Machines or HP-UX vPars software must be installed.
• Supported version of HP Serviceguard must be installed.
Comparing HP Integrity VM Serviceguard toolkit and SG IVS toolkit
NOTE: This section is applicable only for HP Integrity VM B.04.30.
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