HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Release Notes
4.5 Storage Interface Support
NotesvPars and Integrity VM V6.1
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
• For B.06.10 and AVIO only, FCoE support provided by 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.
4.5.1 vPar and VM Attached Device Support
NotesvPars and Integrity VM Version V6.1
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
4.5.2 Multipathing Software Support
Multipathing software is supported on the Integrity VSP system. Unless specified otherwise,
multipathing is supported for use with AVIO (virtual adapter type specified as avio_stor). The
required version for these products is determined by the software vendor and the release of HP-UX
installed on the VSP system.
vPars and Integrity VM Version 6.1Backing Store
• HP-UX 11i v3 built-in multipathing
• EMC PowerPath
1
with legacy DSFs
Whole Disk (or LUN)
• HP-UX 11i v3 built-in multipathing
• PVLinks
• EMC PowerPath
1
with legacy whole disk DSF in a Volume Group
LVM Logical Volumes
• HP-UX 11i v3 built-in multipathing
• EMC PowerPath
1
with legacy whole disk DSF in a Disk Group
• Symantec DMP
VxVM Logical Volumes
• HP-UX 11i v3 built-in multipathing
• PVLinks
• EMC PowerPath
1
with legacy disk DSF in a Volume Group
• Symantec DMP
VxFS Files
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