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
4.4.1 Presenting a Logical Volume created on iSCSI devices as AVIO backing store to a guest
not supported....................................................................................................................22
4.4.2 Size change operations on a SLVM volume based backing store do not get reflected in the
vPar or VM.......................................................................................................................22
4.4.3 The hpvmdevinfo command may not list the correct host to guest device mapping for legacy
AVIO backing stores..........................................................................................................22
4.4.4 Probe of NPIV HBAs for Fibre Channel targets may timeout............................................22
4.4.5 NPIV LUNs not shown by default invocation of ioscan....................................................23
4.4.6 The interrupt balancing daemon must not be enabled in vPars and Integrity VM guests......23
4.4.7 Online addition of DMP device as backing store is not supported...................................24
4.5 VM <—> vPar conversion..................................................................................................24
4.5.1 Converting VMs to vPars causes LAN IDs to shift............................................................24
4.6 Migration, Suspend, and Resume operations on Integrity VM guests........................................24
4.6.1 Use of -F with hpvmmigrate on a suspended VM can cause VM to be not runnable on both
source and target...............................................................................................................24
4.6.2 Copy of a vPar or VM might be left in runnable state if migration fails.............................24
4.6.3 Interrupt migration of vNICs during Online guest migration can result in network
disconnectivity...................................................................................................................25
4.6.4 Physical NIC link state change during hpvmsuspend to hpvmresume may result vNIC in
down state........................................................................................................................25
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........................................................................25
4.7 User interface—CLI...........................................................................................................26
4.7.1 VSPs with 128 or more CPUs must set the tunable msgtql to at least 4906.........................26
4.7.2 Stopping an NPIV guest with the hpvmstop command may fail........................................26
4.8 Known system crashes, panics, hangs and MCAs.................................................................26
4.8.1 vPar or VM guest may panic in SCSI services during installation of HP-UX 11.31.1203..........26
4.8.2 VSP might crash when booting guest with more than 60 vNICs.......................................27
4.8.3 The 11i v2 guest might temporarily hang under certain conditions...................................27
4.8.4 MCA may occur while stopping a vPar or a VM guest with DIO interface........................27
5 HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM support policy................................................29
5.1 Support duration...............................................................................................................29
5.2 VSP firmware requirements.................................................................................................29
5.3 VSP server and OS support ...............................................................................................30
5.4 HP-UX version support for vPar and Integrity VM guests..........................................................30
5.4.1 Support for HP-UX 11i v2 in guests...............................................................................31
5.4.2 Support for HP-UX 11i v3 in guests..............................................................................32
5.5 Storage device support for vPar and Integrity VM guests........................................................33
5.5.1 Attached devices.......................................................................................................33
5.5.2 NPIV support............................................................................................................34
5.5.2.1 Supported HBAs and I/O Interconnect modules.....................................................34
5.5.2.2 Supported NPIV configurations............................................................................35
5.5.3 Multipathing software support ....................................................................................35
5.5.4 Firmware requirements for EVA series storage arrays......................................................35
5.6 Network device support for vPar and Integrity VM guests.......................................................36
5.6.1 Supported adapters for AVIO networking.....................................................................36
5.6.2 AVIO Networking—APA support.................................................................................37
5.6.3 Support for DIO networking........................................................................................37
5.6.3.1 Supported platforms...........................................................................................37
5.6.3.2 Supported adapters...........................................................................................37
5.7 Support for migration of vPars and Integrity VMs ..................................................................38
5.7.1 Terminology..............................................................................................................38
5.7.2 Online migration of Integrity VM guests........................................................................39
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