HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Release Notes (762790-001, July 2014) (Edition: 1.6)
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Release Notes
- Contents
- HP secure development lifecycle
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installing or upgrading to HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3
- 3 New functionality and changes from earlier versions
- 3.1 New features and enhancements
- 3.1.1 Enhanced capability for emulated platform NVRAM (Non Volatile RAM)
- 3.1.2 Increased resources for Integrity VM guests
- 3.1.3 Dynamic addition of I/O devices
- 3.1.4 PCI OLR support on Superdome 2 VSPs
- 3.1.5 AVIO Networking improvements
- 3.1.6 AVIO Storage improvements
- 3.1.7 Greater flexibility for online VM migration
- 3.1.8 Improvements to Virtual Server Management
- 3.1.9 Improvements to VSP resource management
- 3.2 Changes from previous versions
- 3.1 New features and enhancements
- 4 Known problems, limitations, and workarounds
- 4.1 CPU/vCPU
- 4.2 Memory
- 4.3 Networking
- 4.3.1 Cannot remove a VLAN-based vNIC if the VLAN has been removed
- 4.3.2 hpvmhwmgmt might add ports in link aggregates into the DIO pool
- 4.3.3 DIO limitations
- 4.3.4 Known issues or limitations with DIO support for 10GigEthr-02 (iexgbe)
- 4.3.5 DIO-capable functions might become inconsistent with information in vPar or VM device database
- 4.3.6 When DIO device is assigned or removed from the DIO pool, error messages appear multiple times
- 4.4 Storage
- 4.4.1 Presenting a Logical Volume created on iSCSI devices as AVIO backing store to a guest not supported
- 4.4.2 Size change operations on a SLVM volume based backing store do not get reflected in the vPar or VM
- 4.4.3 The hpvmdevinfo command may not list the correct host to guest device mapping for legacy AVIO backing stores
- 4.4.4 Probe of NPIV HBAs for Fibre Channel targets may timeout
- 4.4.5 NPIV LUNs not shown by default invocation of ioscan
- 4.4.6 The interrupt balancing daemon must not be enabled in vPars and Integrity VM guests
- 4.4.7 Online addition of DMP device as backing store is not supported
- 4.5 VM <—> vPar conversion
- 4.6 Migration, Suspend, and Resume operations on Integrity VM guests
- 4.6.1 Use of -F with hpvmmigrate on a suspended VM can cause VM to be not runnable on both source and target
- 4.6.2 Copy of a vPar or VM might be left in runnable state if migration fails
- 4.6.3 Interrupt migration of vNICs during Online guest migration can result in network disconnectivity
- 4.6.4 Physical NIC link state change during hpvmsuspend to hpvmresume may result vNIC in down state
- 4.6.5 Offline migration of a guest- with multiple DIO resources might succeed with errors if the DIO devices are added under the same label
- 4.7 User interface—CLI
- 4.8 Known system crashes, panics, hangs and MCAs
- 5 HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM support policy
- 5.1 Support duration
- 5.2 VSP firmware requirements
- 5.3 VSP server and OS support
- 5.4 HP-UX version support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
- 5.5 Storage device support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
- 5.6 Network device support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
- 5.7 Support for migration of vPars and Integrity VMs
- 6 Support and other resources
- 7 Documentation feedback
Dependencies
VSP must have WEB1310 release (B.11.31.1310) or later versions of the Emulex FCoE driver
installed.
• Online cleanup of failed, changed, or removed NPIV targets from within a vPar or Integrity
VM guest is enabled.
Dependencies
◦ VSP must be at March 2014 OE. If not, the ESCTL patch PHKL_43607 must be installed
on the VSP.
◦ For NPIV vFCs created on Qlogic FC cards, the FCD driver version on the VSP must be
March 2014 or later.
◦ For NPIV vFCs created on Emulex FC cards, the FCLP driver version on the VSP must be
October 2013 (B.11.31.1310) or later.
◦ For NPIV vFCs created on Emulex CNA cards, the FCOC driver version on the VSP must
be October 2013 (B.11.31.1310) or later.
• Storage IO performance and scalability improvements have been implemented for vPars and
Integrity VM guests with greater than 8 vCPUs.
• Cluster DSFs and Veritas DMP nodes are now supported as disk backing store.
• Online migration of guests configured with Veritas CVM backing store have been enabled.
• GVSD SNIA library required by VERITAS Volume Manager Version 5.0.1 and 5.1 SP1 or
later has been provided. For more information, see HP CommonIO B.11.31.1311 Release
Notes HP-UX 11i v3 available at http://www.hp.com/go/common-io-docs.
3.1.7 Greater flexibility for online VM migration
Online migration of Integrity VMs between VSPs using Intel® Itanium® 9300 and 9500 series
processors has been enabled. For more information about operational details see, HP-UX vPars
and Integrity VM V6.3 Administrator Guide.
3.1.8 Improvements to Virtual Server Management
VSMgr (Virtual Server Manager) has been enhanced to support:
• Creation and management of Integrity VM guests with the new and increased resource limits
• Dynamic addition of I/O devices
• VM-vPar conversion
• Offline migration of vPars
• Online migration of Integrity VMs between VSPs with Intel Itanium 9300 and 9500 series
processors
For more information, see the HP Integrity Virtual Server Manager 6.3 Release Notes available at
http://www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs.
3.1.9 Improvements to VSP resource management
Improvements to host memory management have been made to ensure that guests are less sensitive
to memory fragmentation.
16 New functionality and changes from earlier versions