HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.3: Installation, Configuration, Administration

2.8 Troubleshooting Installation Problems...........................................................................................44
2.8.1 Error Messages During Installation........................................................................................44
2.8.2 Warning During Startup if HP SIM is Installed......................................................................45
3 Creating Virtual Machines..........................................................................................47
3.1 Legacy and Agile Device Names.....................................................................................................47
3.2 Specifying Virtual Machine Characteristics....................................................................................48
3.2.1 Virtual Machine Name............................................................................................................49
3.2.2 Guest Operating System Type.................................................................................................49
3.2.3 Virtual CPUs............................................................................................................................49
3.2.4 Entitlement..............................................................................................................................50
3.2.5 Guest Memory Allocation.......................................................................................................50
3.2.6 Automatic Cell Balancing........................................................................................................51
3.2.7 Virtual Devices........................................................................................................................51
3.2.7.1 Creating Virtual Network Devices..................................................................................51
3.2.7.2 Creating Virtual Storage Devices....................................................................................53
3.2.8 Creating Virtual Machine Labels............................................................................................55
3.2.9 Specifying the Virtual Machine Boot Attribute.......................................................................55
3.2.10 Specifying Dynamic Memory Parameters.............................................................................56
3.2.11 Configuration Limits.............................................................................................................56
3.2.12 Sizing Guidelines...................................................................................................................57
3.2.13 Default Guest Settings for HP-UX and OpenVMS................................................................57
3.3 Using the hpvmcreate Command................................................................................................58
3.3.1 Example of Virtual Machine Creation.....................................................................................60
3.4 Starting Virtual Machines................................................................................................................60
3.5 Changing Virtual Machine Configurations.....................................................................................62
3.6 Cloning Virtual Machines...............................................................................................................65
3.7 Stopping Virtual Machines..............................................................................................................69
3.8 Removing Virtual Machines............................................................................................................70
3.9 Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Creation Problems....................................................................71
3.9.1 Configuration Error on Starting the Virtual Machine.............................................................71
4 Creating HP-UX Guests................................................................................................73
4.1 Installing the HP-UX Guest Operating System...............................................................................73
4.2 Do Not Create Golden Images of the VM Host for Guest Installation...........................................76
4.3 Golden Images of Systems with HPVM-Guest Installed Must have Integrity VM Device Drivers
Configured............................................................................................................................................76
4.4 Installing HP-UX Guest Management Software.............................................................................76
4.5 Troubleshooting HP-UX Guest Creation.........................................................................................77
4.5.1 The guest hangs in the EFI shell..............................................................................................77
5 Creating HP OpenVMS Guests..................................................................................79
5.1 Minimum Processor Requirement for OpenVMS Guests...............................................................79
5.2 Minimum VM Host Page Size.........................................................................................................79
5.3 Guest Device Placement and Adapter Limitation..........................................................................80
5.4 OpenVMS System Dump Analyzer (SDA).....................................................................................80
5.5 Formatting SYSTEM UUID.............................................................................................................80
5.6 OpenVMS Guest Notes...................................................................................................................81
6 Creating Virtual Storage Devices...............................................................................83
6.1 Introduction to Integrity VM Storage.............................................................................................83
6.1.1 Integrity VM Storage Goals.....................................................................................................83
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