HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Administrator Guide
7.1.5 Virtual CPUs..............................................................................................................77
7.1.6 Entitlement.................................................................................................................78
7.1.7 Guest memory allocation.............................................................................................78
7.1.8 Automatic cell balancing.............................................................................................79
7.1.9 Reserved resources and resource over-commitment..........................................................79
7.1.9.1 Resource over-commitment....................................................................................79
7.1.10 Virtual devices..........................................................................................................80
7.1.10.1 Creating virtual network devices...........................................................................80
7.1.10.2 Creating virtual storage devices...........................................................................81
7.1.11 Creating virtual machine labels....................................................................................83
7.1.12 Specifying the virtual machine boot attribute.................................................................83
7.1.13 Specifying dynamic memory parameters.......................................................................84
7.1.14 Configuration limits....................................................................................................84
7.1.15 Sizing guidelines.......................................................................................................85
7.1.16 Default guest settings for HP-UX...................................................................................85
7.2 Using the hpvmcreate command.........................................................................................86
7.2.1 Example of virtual machine creation.............................................................................88
7.3 Starting virtual machines....................................................................................................88
7.4 Changing virtual machine configurations..............................................................................90
7.5 Cloning virtual machines....................................................................................................94
7.6 Stopping virtual machines..................................................................................................97
7.7 Removing virtual machines.................................................................................................99
7.8 Troubleshooting virtual machine creation problems................................................................99
7.8.1 Configuration error on starting the virtual machine.........................................................99
8 Installing the HP-UX guest operating system and software.............................101
8.1 Installing the HP-UX guest operating system.........................................................................101
8.2 Do not create golden images of the VSP for guest installation...............................................103
8.3 Installing VirtualBase on a vPar/VM..................................................................................104
8.4 Troubleshooting HP-UX guest creation................................................................................105
8.4.1 The guest hangs in the EFI shell.................................................................................105
9 Creating virtual storage devices................................................................107
9.1 Introduction to vParVM storage..........................................................................................107
9.1.1 Storage goals...........................................................................................................107
9.1.1.1 Storage utilization..............................................................................................107
9.1.1.2 Storage availability............................................................................................107
9.1.1.3 Storage performance..........................................................................................107
9.1.1.4 Storage security.................................................................................................108
9.1.1.5 Storage configurability.......................................................................................108
9.1.2 Storage architectures................................................................................................108
9.1.2.1 Shared I/O......................................................................................................108
9.1.2.2 Attached I/O...................................................................................................109
9.1.3 Attached device support in AVIO................................................................................109
9.1.3.1 Resource syntax.................................................................................................109
9.1.3.2 Finding the lunpath hardware path......................................................................110
9.1.3.3 Sharing an attached device................................................................................110
9.1.3.4 Mapping AVIO storage devices on HP-UX guests..................................................112
9.1.3.5 Patch dependency.............................................................................................113
9.1.3.6 Error messages.................................................................................................114
9.1.4 vPar/VM storage implementations..............................................................................114
9.1.4.1 vPar/VM storage adapters.................................................................................114
9.1.4.2 Sample script for adding multiple devices at once.................................................114
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