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
Contents
HP secure development lifecycle......................................................................7
1 Introduction...............................................................................................9
2 Installing or upgrading to HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM V6.3........................11
2.1 Virtualization Services Platform............................................................................................11
2.2 Hardware requirements for the VSP.....................................................................................11
2.3 Software requirements for the VSP.......................................................................................12
2.4 Platform and OS support for vPars and Integrity VM guests.....................................................12
2.5 Software requirements for vPars and Integrity VM guests........................................................12
2.6 Product identification.........................................................................................................12
3 New functionality and changes from earlier versions.....................................15
3.1 New features and enhancements.........................................................................................15
3.1.1 Enhanced capability for emulated platform NVRAM (Non Volatile RAM)...........................15
3.1.2 Increased resources for Integrity VM guests....................................................................15
3.1.3 Dynamic addition of I/O devices.................................................................................15
3.1.4 PCI OLR support on Superdome 2 VSPs........................................................................15
3.1.5 AVIO Networking improvements..................................................................................15
3.1.6 AVIO Storage improvements........................................................................................15
3.1.7 Greater flexibility for online VM migration.....................................................................16
3.1.8 Improvements to Virtual Server Management.................................................................16
3.1.9 Improvements to VSP resource management...................................................................16
3.2 Changes from previous versions..........................................................................................17
3.2.1 Changes to operation of HPVM commands...................................................................17
3.2.1.1 hpvmmodify(1M) and vparmodify(1M)..................................................................17
3.2.1.2 hpvmstatus(1M)..................................................................................................17
3.2.1.3 hpvmdiorecover(1M)...........................................................................................17
4 Known problems, limitations, and workarounds............................................19
4.1 CPU/vCPU.......................................................................................................................19
4.1.1 Increasing CPU entitlement on running Integrity VM guests may cause problems.................19
4.1.2 CPU deconfigured by firmware can be assigned to vPar or VM........................................19
4.1.3 On VM guests running HP-UX, compressed system dump takes a long time........................19
4.2 Memory..........................................................................................................................19
4.2.1 loratune(1M) must not be used on VSPs when HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM is active.........19
4.3 Networking.....................................................................................................................20
4.3.1 Cannot remove a VLAN-based vNIC if the VLAN has been removed................................20
4.3.2 hpvmhwmgmt might add ports in link aggregates into the DIO pool................................20
4.3.3 DIO limitations..........................................................................................................20
4.3.4 Known issues or limitations with DIO support for 10GigEthr-02 (iexgbe)...........................21
4.3.4.1 DIO iexgbe link stops receiving link notifications....................................................21
4.3.4.2 DIO iexgbe link does not see bandwidth changes.................................................21
4.3.5 DIO-capable functions might become inconsistent with information in vPar or VM device
database..........................................................................................................................22
4.3.6 When DIO device is assigned or removed from the DIO pool, error messages appear
multiple times....................................................................................................................22
4.4 Storage...........................................................................................................................22
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