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
• NC364m — C-class Mezz card
• NC551m — HP NC551m Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb Converged Network Adapter
• NC552m —HP NC552m 10Gb 2-P Flex-10 Server Adapter
• NC553i — HP Dual Port FlexFabric 10Gb BL8X0c i4 Embedded CNIC
• NC553m — HP NC553m 10Gb 2-P Flex-10 Server Adapter
5.6.2 AVIO Networking—APA support
APA provides a mechanism to aggregate multiple physical NICs into a faster network. Apart from
configuring network interface card under an AVIO virtual switch, you can present an APA as an
interface under an AVIO virtual switch. This mechanism provides you with high availability from
a card failure perspective. The following table lists the set of network drivers that can be used to
configure APA ports.
vPars and Integrity VM V6.3Virtual Network Adapter Type
The following Ethernet drivers are supported, including
APA ports:
• iether
• igelan
• ixgbe
• icxgbe
• iexgbe
• Networking support provided by CNA, supported by
the iocxgbe driver
avio_lan (AVIO)
5.6.3 Support for DIO networking
5.6.3.1 Supported platforms
DIO networking is supported on the following platforms:
• HP Integrity i2 servers
Intel® Itanium® Processor 9300 Series
◦ rx2800
◦ Blade Servers (BL8x0c i2)
◦ Superdome 2
• HP Integrity i4 servers
Intel® Itanium® Processor 9500 Series
◦ rx2800
◦ Blade Servers (BL8x0c i4)
◦ Superdome 2
5.6.3.2 Supported adapters
DIO networking is supported with the following adapters:
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