HP-UX HB v13.00 Ch-18 - HPVM

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 8 (of 49)
Chapter 18 Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM)
October 29, 2013
− A high performance Networking and Storage solution for Integrity VM
• Details
− Storage and network AVIO device drivers on guests and VM Host
− Avoids traversing SCSI, network stack twice (in guest and VM Host)
− Shared I/O channel through the VM Monitor improves latency & BW
• Performance
− Improves bandwidth by up to 2X compared to existing Virtual I/O
− Reduces CPU usage by up to 50% compared to existing Virtual I/O
• Support
− Co-exists with existing Virtual I/O
− Supports virtual disks mapped to LUNs, whole disks, LVM logical volumes
− HP-UX 11iv2 guest support in HPVM 3.5, Windows and 11iv3 in near future
The command line interface (CLI) accepts either avio_lan or aviolan and either avio_stor
or aviostor. For example, the following hpvmcreate commands add both an AVIO network
and an AVIO disk to the guest aviotest:
# hpvmcreate -P aviotest -O hpux -a network:aviolan::vswitch:swlan1 \
-a disk:aviostor::disk/dev/rdsk/clt2d0
# hpvmcreate -P aviotest -O hpux -a network:avio_lan::vswitch:swlan1 \
–a disk:avio_stor::disk/dev/rdsk/clt2d0
For current AVIA patches and known issues, see WTEC’s AVIO page
Supported Limits
See WTEC’s HPVM Supported Limits page.
Installation
Host System Requirements
Required
Resources
Description
System
Any Integrity Server
Operating System
Refer to the Integrity VM Release Notes or to the WTEC
Product Version page for supported Host HP-UX and HPVM
releases.
Disk Storage
Sufficient disk space for the following: