HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Release Notes (762790-001, July 2014) (Edition: 1.6)
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 Release Notes
- Contents
- HP secure development lifecycle
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installing or upgrading to HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3
- 3 New functionality and changes from earlier versions
- 3.1 New features and enhancements
- 3.1.1 Enhanced capability for emulated platform NVRAM (Non Volatile RAM)
- 3.1.2 Increased resources for Integrity VM guests
- 3.1.3 Dynamic addition of I/O devices
- 3.1.4 PCI OLR support on Superdome 2 VSPs
- 3.1.5 AVIO Networking improvements
- 3.1.6 AVIO Storage improvements
- 3.1.7 Greater flexibility for online VM migration
- 3.1.8 Improvements to Virtual Server Management
- 3.1.9 Improvements to VSP resource management
- 3.2 Changes from previous versions
- 3.1 New features and enhancements
- 4 Known problems, limitations, and workarounds
- 4.1 CPU/vCPU
- 4.2 Memory
- 4.3 Networking
- 4.3.1 Cannot remove a VLAN-based vNIC if the VLAN has been removed
- 4.3.2 hpvmhwmgmt might add ports in link aggregates into the DIO pool
- 4.3.3 DIO limitations
- 4.3.4 Known issues or limitations with DIO support for 10GigEthr-02 (iexgbe)
- 4.3.5 DIO-capable functions might become inconsistent with information in vPar or VM device database
- 4.3.6 When DIO device is assigned or removed from the DIO pool, error messages appear multiple times
- 4.4 Storage
- 4.4.1 Presenting a Logical Volume created on iSCSI devices as AVIO backing store to a guest not supported
- 4.4.2 Size change operations on a SLVM volume based backing store do not get reflected in the vPar or VM
- 4.4.3 The hpvmdevinfo command may not list the correct host to guest device mapping for legacy AVIO backing stores
- 4.4.4 Probe of NPIV HBAs for Fibre Channel targets may timeout
- 4.4.5 NPIV LUNs not shown by default invocation of ioscan
- 4.4.6 The interrupt balancing daemon must not be enabled in vPars and Integrity VM guests
- 4.4.7 Online addition of DMP device as backing store is not supported
- 4.5 VM <—> vPar conversion
- 4.6 Migration, Suspend, and Resume operations on Integrity VM guests
- 4.6.1 Use of -F with hpvmmigrate on a suspended VM can cause VM to be not runnable on both source and target
- 4.6.2 Copy of a vPar or VM might be left in runnable state if migration fails
- 4.6.3 Interrupt migration of vNICs during Online guest migration can result in network disconnectivity
- 4.6.4 Physical NIC link state change during hpvmsuspend to hpvmresume may result vNIC in down state
- 4.6.5 Offline migration of a guest- with multiple DIO resources might succeed with errors if the DIO devices are added under the same label
- 4.7 User interface—CLI
- 4.8 Known system crashes, panics, hangs and MCAs
- 5 HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM support policy
- 5.1 Support duration
- 5.2 VSP firmware requirements
- 5.3 VSP server and OS support
- 5.4 HP-UX version support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
- 5.5 Storage device support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
- 5.6 Network device support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
- 5.7 Support for migration of vPars and Integrity VMs
- 6 Support and other resources
- 7 Documentation feedback
Table 5 HP-UX 11i v3 OS support for vPars
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Integrity
Virtual
Machines
V6.3V6.2V6.1.5V6.1V3.5
Not SupportedNot SupportedNot SupportedNot Supported
Not
Supported
Integrity
Servers
Integrity
Blades
Mar2012–Mar2014Mar2012–Mar2013Mar2012 & Sep2012Mar 2012rx2800 i2
Sep2011–Mar2014Sep2011–Mar2013Sep2011–Sep2012Sep2011–Mar 2012BL8x0c i2
Mar2012–Mar2014Mar2012–Mar2013Mar2012 & Sep2012Mar 2012SD2 i2
Mar2012–Mar2014Mar2012–Mar2013Mar2012 & Sep2012Not Supported
rx2800 i4
BL8x0c i4
SD2 i4
NOTE: vPar using HP-UX 11i v3, Sep 2011—Sep 2012 require the following guest OS patches:
• PHKL_43308 1.0 Virtual psm for guest para-virtualization
• PHKL_42891 - Virtual console for guest para-virtualization
5.5 Storage device support for vPar and Integrity VM guests
NotesvPars and Integrity VM V6.3
Accelerated virtual I/O (AVIO) storage interfaces
are defined using the avio_stor adapter type.
(See the hpvmresources manpage.)
• Fibre Channel adapters supported by TD, FCD, or FLCP drivers
• SCSI adapters supported by the C8xx, MPT, or CISS drivers
• IDE adapters supported by the SIDE driver
• USB support of the UsbScsiAdapter driver and USB 2.0 support
of the usb_ms_scsi driver (AVIO HVSD support for USB 2.0 as
of 11i v3 0903)
• iSCSI adapters supported by the iSCSI driver (AVIO requires
HostAVIOStor B.11.31.1009.01 or later)
• SAS adapters supported by the SASD driver
• Converged network adapters (CNA) supported by the FCoC
driver
• SATA DVD is supported by AVIO only. Even if SATA DVD is set
as a SCSI device, the guest EFI does not recognize it.
5.5.1 Attached devices
NotesvPars and Integrity VM Version V6.3
Attached devices are supported for all types of guest
operating systems that provide supported drivers for the
physical device as attached to the VSP device.
• CD/DVD burners
• Media changers
• Tape devices
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