HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.1.5 Administrator Guide (5900-2295, April 2013)
7.1.4 Reserved resources.....................................................................................................79
7.1.5 Virtual CPUs..............................................................................................................79
7.1.6 Entitlement.................................................................................................................80
7.1.7 Guest memory allocation.............................................................................................80
7.1.8 Automatic cell balancing.............................................................................................81
7.1.9 Reserved resources and resource over-commitment..........................................................81
7.1.9.1 Resource over-commitment....................................................................................81
7.1.10 Virtual devices..........................................................................................................82
7.1.10.1 Creating virtual network devices...........................................................................82
7.1.10.2 Creating virtual storage devices...........................................................................83
7.1.11 Creating virtual machine labels....................................................................................85
7.1.12 Specifying the virtual machine boot attribute.................................................................85
7.1.13 Specifying dynamic memory parameters.......................................................................86
7.1.14 Configuration limits....................................................................................................86
7.1.15 Sizing guidelines.......................................................................................................87
7.1.16 Default guest settings for HP-UX...................................................................................87
7.2 Using the hpvmcreate command.........................................................................................88
7.2.1 Example of virtual machine creation.............................................................................90
7.3 Starting virtual machines....................................................................................................90
7.4 Changing virtual machine configurations..............................................................................92
7.5 Cloning virtual machines....................................................................................................96
7.6 Stopping virtual machines..................................................................................................99
7.7 Removing virtual machines...............................................................................................101
7.8 Troubleshooting virtual machine creation problems..............................................................101
7.8.1 Configuration error on starting the virtual machine.......................................................101
8 Installing the HP-UX guest operating system and software.............................103
8.1 Installing the HP-UX guest operating system.........................................................................103
8.2 Do not create golden images of the VSP for guest installation...............................................105
8.3 Installing VirtualBase on a vPar/VM..................................................................................106
8.4 Troubleshooting HP-UX guest creation................................................................................107
8.4.1 The guest hangs in the EFI shell.................................................................................107
9 Creating virtual storage devices................................................................109
9.1 Introduction to vParVM storage..........................................................................................109
9.1.1 Storage goals...........................................................................................................109
9.1.1.1 Storage utilization..............................................................................................109
9.1.1.2 Storage availability............................................................................................109
9.1.1.3 Storage performance..........................................................................................109
9.1.1.4 Storage security.................................................................................................110
9.1.1.5 Storage configurability.......................................................................................110
9.1.2 Storage architectures................................................................................................110
9.1.2.1 Shared I/O......................................................................................................110
9.1.2.2 Attached I/O...................................................................................................111
9.1.3 Attached device support in AVIO................................................................................111
9.1.3.1 Resource syntax.................................................................................................111
9.1.3.2 Finding the lunpath hardware path......................................................................112
9.1.3.3 Sharing an attached device................................................................................112
9.1.3.4 Mapping AVIO storage devices on HP-UX guests..................................................114
9.1.3.5 Patch dependency.............................................................................................115
9.1.3.6 Error messages.................................................................................................116
9.1.4 vPar/VM storage implementations..............................................................................116
9.1.4.1 vPar/VM storage adapters.................................................................................116
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