HP 9000 Containers A.03.01 on HP Integrity Server Administrator Guide HP-UX 11i v3 (5900-3112, June 2013)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................9
1.1 Overview............................................................................................................................9
1.2 Features of HP 9000 Containers...........................................................................................9
1.3 HP 9000 container types...................................................................................................10
1.4 When to use HP 9000 Containers.......................................................................................10
1.5 Consolidating HP 9000 servers using HP 9000 Containers....................................................11
1.6 Sizing an HP 9000 container.............................................................................................11
1.7 Resource entitlement..........................................................................................................12
1.8 Using ARIES without HP 9000 Containers............................................................................12
1.9 ISV software license and support.........................................................................................13
2 Installing and configuring HP 9000 Containers............................................15
2.1 Prerequisites.....................................................................................................................15
2.2 Recommended patches......................................................................................................15
2.3 Additional requirements for HP 9000 classic containers.........................................................16
2.4 Configuring HP-UX SRP......................................................................................................16
2.5 Installing HP 9000 Containers............................................................................................16
3 Transition of application environments from HP 9000 server to HP 9000
container....................................................................................................17
3.1 Selecting HP 9000 container type.......................................................................................17
3.2 Creating HP 9000 server file system image..........................................................................17
3.3 Transitioning kernel tunable parameters...............................................................................18
3.4 Choosing name for HP 9000 container...............................................................................19
3.5 Creating file systems for the container..................................................................................19
3.6 Installing driver and management software..........................................................................20
3.7 Creating and configuring an HP 9000 container..................................................................20
4 Creating and configuring HP 9000 system container.....................................21
4.1 Setting up user environment for HP 9000 image recovery.......................................................21
4.2 Creating container root directory........................................................................................21
4.3 Recovering HP 9000 image...............................................................................................21
4.3.1 Configuring mount points............................................................................................21
4.3.2 Using Ignite-UX network recovery archive.....................................................................22
4.3.3 Using Ignite-UX tape recovery archive..........................................................................22
4.3.4 Using cpio, tar, and frecover recovery archive...............................................................22
4.3.5 Using other tools for recovery archive..........................................................................23
4.3.6 Completing the recovery............................................................................................23
4.4 Creating HP 9000 system container....................................................................................23
4.4.1 Configuring PRM.......................................................................................................23
4.4.2 Adding hp9000sys template......................................................................................23
4.4.3 Verifying configuration of HP 9000 system container.....................................................25
4.4.4 Changing configuration parameters (if required)...........................................................25
4.4.5 Reverting configuration (if required).............................................................................25
4.5 Additional container configuration......................................................................................25
4.5.1 Configuring host name and node name........................................................................25
4.5.2 Configuring IP address...............................................................................................25
4.5.3 Configuring additional IP addresses.............................................................................26
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