HP vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines V6.1 Release Notes

Supported by EMC. See EMC documentation.

4.5.3 EVA Series Firmware Requirement

The AVIO Storage Driver supports Active-Active firmware types on EVA series (3000/5000 and

4000/6000/8000). Be sure that the following firmware revision levels are met before configuring

AVIO backing stores on these arrays:

• On EVA 4000/6000/8000, all released firmware revisions support Active-Active configuration.

Therefore, no action is necessary on these arrays.

• EVA 3000/5000 arrays need minimum firmware revisions of VCS v4.004 (Active-Active

firmware).

For more information about EVA firmware upgrades, see the HP Services website: HP Services.

4.6 NPIV configuration support

Supported LimitLimit Description

8NPIV HBAs per vPar/VM

16Number of NPIV HBAs per physical HBA

8Number of paths supported per NPIV device

2048Number of LUNs per NPIV HBA

2048Number of NPIV devices per vPar/VM

NOTE: In configurations where multiple NPIV HBAs created from a single physical HBA are used

by different vPars/VMs, all the I/O from these vPars/VMs share a single physical HBA, which

could lead to performance bottlenecks in high I/O scenarios.

For a more balanced performance, HP recommends that you spread NPIV HBAs for vPars/VMs

across multiple physical adapters.

4.7 Network interface support for AVIO

Specific network interfaces are supported if they are supported for the version of HP-UX in use on

the VSP system. The VSP physical network interface card can be configured with Auto Port

Aggregation (APA), with the resulting port supported as indicated in the following table:

vPars and Integrity VM V6.1Virtual Network Adapter Type

The following Ethernet drivers are supported, including

APA ports:

• iether

• igelan

• ixgbe

• icxgbe

• iexgbe

• Networking support provided by CNA, supported by

the iocxgbe driver

avio_lan (AVIO)

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