HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Installation, Configuration, Administration

Table 9-3 Options to the hpvmmigrate Command (continued)
DescriptionOption
Creates the virtual machine configuration on the target VM Host and
marks it Not Runnable, but does not change the virtual machine on
the source VM Host. This is used primarily to distribute virtual machine
configurations for Serviceguard.
-k
Specifies a descriptive label for the virtual machine, which can be useful
in identifying a specific virtual machine in the hpvmstatus command
verbose display. The label can contain up to 256 alphanumeric characters,
including A-Z, a-z, 0-9, the dash (-), the underscore (_), and the period
(.). To specify white space, the label must be quoted (" ").
-l new-vm-label
For offline migrations, specifies a resource of a virtual machine for
copying, translation, and so on. This option can be specified more than
once. for information about specifying virtual machine storage and
network resources, see hpvmresources(5).
-m rsrc-with-absolute-path
Quits after starting the migration in the background. If not specified,
the hpvmmigrate command continues to run interactively and reports
the migration status until the migration is complete.
-n
Specifies the new name for the virtual machine being migrated. The
new-vm-name can be up to 256 alphanumeric characters, including
A-Z, a-z, 0–9, the dash (-), the underscore character (_), and the period
(.).The virtual machine name must not start with a dash (-).
If the virtual machine name exists on the target VM Host, the virtual
machine must have the same UUID as the source virtual machine, and
the virtual machine on the target must be marked Not Runnable.
-N new-vm-name
Specifies an online guest migration. To be compatible for online
migrations, both the source and the target VM Host must have the same
processor family (as reported by the machinfocommand). To maintain
online guest network connectivity, a vswitch with the same name and
connected to the same subnet must be configured on the target VM
Host. Also, only whole disk backing storage consisting of SAN LUNs,
and null backing store DVD devices, are supported for online migration
guest storage.
-o
Specifies the unique number of the virtual machine to be migrated. To
display the source-vm-number, enter the hpvmstatus command.
Most forms of the hpvmmigrate command require either the -p option
or the -P option.
-p source-vm-number
Specifies the unique name of the virtual machine to be migrated. Most
forms of the hpvmmigrate command require either the -p option or
the -P option.
-P source-vm-name
Displays fewer informative messages. Some potential error conditions
are still reported.
-q
For online migrations, set non-interactive mode. Assume that the output
device is not a terminal.
-Q
For offline migration, specifies the amount of memory available to this
virtual machine. The size is expressed as an integer, optionally followed
by one of these letters:
• M (megabytes)
• G (gigabytes)
If the letter is omitted, the default unit is megabytes.
-r amount
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