HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.1.5 Administrator Guide (5900-2295, April 2013)

Contents
1 Introduction.............................................................................................13
1.1 Intended audience.............................................................................................................13
1.2 Common Manageability of vPars and VMs...........................................................................13
1.3 About vPars......................................................................................................................14
1.4 About Integrity VM............................................................................................................14
1.5 Terminology.....................................................................................................................16
1.6 vPars and Integrity VM media.............................................................................................16
1.7 Types of I/O.....................................................................................................................17
1.7.1 Using AVIO with vPars and Integrity VM........................................................................17
1.7.2 Using direct I/O networking........................................................................................19
1.8 Running applications in vPars or Integrity VM environments.....................................................20
1.9 Do not install applications on the VSP system........................................................................21
1.10 Attributes that can be changed dynamically.........................................................................23
1.11 Related products...............................................................................................................24
1.12 Using the vPars and Integrity VM documentation..................................................................24
1.12.1 Integrity VM commands.............................................................................................24
1.12.2 vPars commands.......................................................................................................26
1.12.3 Virtual Environment Console.......................................................................................26
1.13 Using this manual............................................................................................................26
2 Installing and configuring VSP for HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.1.5...........29
2.1 VSP installation requirements...............................................................................................29
2.2 Configuring the VSP..........................................................................................................29
2.3 VSP cores........................................................................................................................29
2.3.1 vPar environment.......................................................................................................30
2.3.2 VM environment........................................................................................................30
2.3.3 Default cores after installing V6.1.5..............................................................................30
2.4 VSP memory....................................................................................................................30
2.5 VSP memory overhead estimation.......................................................................................31
2.6 Hyperthreading setting on the VSP......................................................................................32
2.7 VSP I/O configuration.......................................................................................................33
2.8 VSP kernel tunables...........................................................................................................33
3 Installation procedures for HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.1.5......................35
3.1 Installing vPars and Integrity VM V6.1.5................................................................................35
3.1.1 vPars V6.1.5 installation requirements ...........................................................................35
3.1.2 Installing vPars V6.1.5.................................................................................................36
3.1.3 Integrity VM installation requirements............................................................................37
3.1.4 Installing Integrity VM V6.1.5.......................................................................................38
3.2 Bundle names..................................................................................................................39
3.3 Inhibitors to installing HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM..............................................................40
3.4 Verifying the installation of vPars and Integrity VM................................................................40
3.5 Removing vPars or Integrity VM..........................................................................................40
3.6 Reserving VSP devices.......................................................................................................40
3.7 Troubleshooting installation problems..................................................................................41
3.7.1 Error messages during installation................................................................................41
3.7.2 Warning during startup if HP SIM is installed................................................................41
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