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
5.5.2 NPIV support
5.5.2.1 Supported HBAs and I/O Interconnect modules
Supported HBAs and I/O Interconnect Modules for HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3 include,
but are not limited to:
Qlogic HBAs
• Qlogic QMH2562 8Gb FB HBA for HP Blade System C-Class (451871-B21)
• HP single-port 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel HBA (AH400A)
• HP dual-port 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel HBA (AH401A)
• PCIe Single Port 4Gb Fibre Channel and Single Port 1000 BT Adapter (AD221A)
• HP PCIe Dual Port 4Gb Fibre Channel and Dual Port 1000BT Adapter (AD222A)
• PCIe Single Port 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapter (B9F23A)
• PCIe Dual Port 16Gb Fibre Channel Adapter (B9F24A)
Emulex HBAs
• HP PCIe 2-port 8Gb FibreChannel and 2-port 1/10Gb Ethernet Adapter (AT094A)
• HP AD393-60001 PCIe Fibre Channel 2-port 4Gb FC/2-port 1000B-SX Combo Adapter
(AD393)
• HP PCIe 1-port 8Gb FC SR Emulex HBA (AH402A)
• HP PCIe 2-port 8Gb FC SR Emulex HBA (AH403A)
• LPe1105 4G Mezz Emulex (403621-B21)
• Dual Port PCIe Emulex 8 Gb Mezzanine Fibre Channel Adapter (456972-B21)
• HP PCIe 2-port NC551m 10Gb FlexFabric Mezzanine Adapter (580151-B21)
• HP PCIe 2-port NC553m 10Gb FlexFabric Mezzanine Adapter (613431-B21)
• HP PCIe 2-port CN1100E 10Gb FlexFabric Adapter (AT111A)
• HP PCIe 2-port NC553i 10Gb Embedded FlexFabric Adapter (BL8XX i4 LOMs)
HP Integrity BladeSystem I/O Interconnect Modules
• HP BLc Virtual Connect 8Gb 24-Port Fibre Channel Module for c-Class BladeSystem
(466482-B21)
• HP BLc Virtual Connect 8Gb 20-Port Fibre Channel Module for c-Class BladeSystem
(572018-B21)
• HP BLc 4Gb Virtual Connect Fibre Channel Module for c-Class BladeSystem (409513-B22)
• HP B-Series 8/12c BladeSystem SAN switch AJ820A
• HP BLc Virtual Connect 10Gb 24-Port FlexFabric IO Interconnect Module (571956-B21)
For the SAN fabric, see your vendor's documentation to determine support. HP supports NPIV with
its 4 GB, 8 GB and 16 GB switches and also with FCOE switches supported by CNA cards listed
previously.
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