HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Release Notes

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
1.1 Features and Enhancements in vPars and Integrity VM..............................................................7
1.2 Version Support..................................................................................................................8
1.3 Changes in Support............................................................................................................8
2 Installation Notes.....................................................................................11
2.1 Installing HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.1...........................................................................11
2.2 Upgrading to vPars and Integrity VM V6.1...........................................................................11
3 Issues in this release..................................................................................13
3.1 Changes and Issues in this Release......................................................................................13
3.1.1 hpvmhwmgmt might add ports in link aggregates into the DIO pool..................................13
3.1.2 Analyzing failures when DIO resources in use by the VSP................................................13
3.1.3 DIO management device file appears stale to lssf...........................................................14
3.1.4 DIO Broadcom stops receiving link notifications.............................................................14
3.1.5 DIO Broadcom does not see bandwidth changes...........................................................14
3.1.6 DIO-capable functions might become inconsistent with information in vPar/VM device
database..........................................................................................................................14
3.1.7 DIO limitations..........................................................................................................14
3.1.8 No warnings when attempting to change memory size of a running vPar..........................15
3.1.9 The hpvmmodify command might fail when it should succeed..........................................15
3.1.10 The hpvmmodify command might succeed when it should fail.........................................15
3.1.11 Converting VMs to vPars causes LAN IDs to shift............................................................15
3.1.12 SMH is unresponsive when running stress tests on a VSP................................................16
3.1.13 WARNING: VCPU0 not scheduled message can be ignored..........................................16
3.1.14 VSP requires dedicated CPU to support a vPars.............................................................16
3.1.15 Use of -F with hpvmmigrate on a suspended VM can cause VM to be not runnable on
both source and target.......................................................................................................16
3.1.16 Integrity VM and vPar CLI commands experience poor performance when there are
numerous devices on the VSP..............................................................................................16
3.1.17 Adding NPIV HBAs to existing guest with AVIO storage HBAs might cause a problem........17
3.1.18 Simultaneous interrupt migration operations in both VSP and VM might cause VSP system
crash................................................................................................................................18
3.1.19 Copy of a vPar/VM might be left in runnable state if migration fails.................................18
3.1.20 Changes to the Default EFI AVIO Storage Driver Enumeration Policy................................18
3.1.21 Probe of NPIV HBAs for Fibre Channel Targets Might Timeout.........................................19
3.1.22 vPar might hang during boot.....................................................................................20
3.1.23 Memory allocation might not be as expected...............................................................20
3.1.24 I/Os take long to complete under heavy I/O conditions on vPars/VMs with large NPIV
LUN configuration..............................................................................................................20
3.1.25 vPar/VM hangs on boot just prior to RC scripts being launched......................................20
3.1.26 CPU deconfigured by firmware can be assigned to vPar/VM.........................................20
3.1.27 Probe of NPIV HBAs for Fibre Channel Targets May Timeout..........................................21
3.1.28 vPars known behaviors and workarounds....................................................................21
4 Integrity VM Support Policy........................................................................27
4.1 vPars and Integrity VM Minimum Support Life.......................................................................27
4.2 vPars Firmware Requirements..............................................................................................28
4.3 VSP OS and Server Support ..............................................................................................28
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