HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Installation, Configuration, Administration

Table 2-1 Requirements for Installing Integrity VM V4.3 (continued)
DescriptionResource
Sufficient disk space for the following:
• The VM Host operating system (see the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide)
• The VM Host software (50 MB)
• Disk space for each guest operating system, including swap space
NOTE: The VM Host requires swap space only as recommended by HP-UX 11i v3.
Otherwise, no swap space is required for Integrity VM.
• Disk space for the applications running on each guest
• 4.7 MB for each running guest as the allowance for backing up configuration files
For information about configuring storage devices for guests, see Chapter 6 (page 83).
Disk storage
Sufficient physical memory (RAM), including the following:
• For the VM Host, 1250 MB + an additional 8.5% of the total physical memory
• For the guests, the sum of the memory requirements of all of the guests that are
booted simultaneously, plus an additional 8% of the memory used for all guests with
less than 4GB of memory, plus an additional 8.3% of the memory used for all guests
with more than 4GB of memory.
• HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 requires a minimum of 1 GB of memory, so a guest running
HP-UX must be configured with at least that much memory.
For example, for a VM Host with GB of memory and two VMs configured with 3 GB of
memory each, the memory requirements would be calculated as follows:
• 2.58 GB for the VM Host (1250 MB plus 8.5% of 16 GB)
• 6.48 GB total guest requirement (108% of 6 GB)
• Total requirements = 9.06 GB of memory
This leaves 6.93 GB of memory for additional guests.
Memory
A configured and operational network. To allow guests network access, the VM Host
must have at least one functioning network interface card (NIC). For more information
about configuring network devices for virtual machines, see Chapter 7 (page 123).
Network configuration
NOTE: The VM Host overhead is valid for VM Hosts with base_pagesize=64.
2.1.2 Inhibitors to Installing Integrity VM
The following items block Integrity VM Version 4.3 from installing:
• Hierarchical Files System (HFS) files in the /etc/fstab file. You must remove any entries
before installing Integrity VM. Check for these entries with the following command:
# grep -i hfs /etc/fstab
• HP System Insight Manager (HP SIM) Server bundle. Check for this product with the
following command:
# swlist | grep HPSIM-HP-UX
• HP-UX Virtual Partitions bundle. Check for this product with the following command:
# swlist -l bundle | grep VirtualPartition
2.1.3 Bundle Names
The Integrity VM release contains the following software:
• T2767CC — B.04.30 Integrity VM
• T8718AC — B.04.30 Integrity VM Online Migration software bundle, provided as a separate
product on the Application software (AR) DVD.
• VMGuestLib — B.04.30 Integrity VM Guest Support Libraries, installed as part of the HP-UX
VSE-OE and required by Integrity VM
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