HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration

• HP Integrity Virtual Server Environment (VSE) — A graphical user interface for managing
HP Integrity central managed systems (CMS). Runs under HP Systems Insight Manager.
For more information, see the HP VSE Management Software Quick Start Guide. This version
of Integrity VM requires VSE version A.02.50 or later.
• HP Integrity Essentials Global Workload Manager (gWLM) — As part of the VSE suite, this
software product allows you to centrally define resource-sharing policies that you can use
across multiple Integrity servers. These policies increase system utilization and facilitate
controlled sharing of system resources.
Make sure the version of gWLM is appropriate for the version of Integrity VM, as described
in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes.
• HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager — A graphical user interface for creating and
managing HP Integrity virtual machines. Runs under either HP System Management
Homepage (SMH) or HP Systems Insight Manager as part of the HP Integrity VSE. For more
information, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager Getting Started Guide.
• HP Integrity VM Providers — To manage Integrity VM guests with VM Manager, gWLM,
or any VSE components, install the appropriate provider software from the operating system
media or the Integrity VM guest management software kit.
• HP Integrity Support Pack and Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Service Pack 1 — HP
recommends that you install the Support Pack and SP1 on all HP Integrity servers running
Windows Server 2003, 64-bit. For more information, see the HP Integrity Support Pack and
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Notes.
• VERITAS Volume Manager— A data storage solution product that can be used to manage
the physical disks on the VM Host. For more information, see the VERITAS Volume Manager
Administrator's Guide.
• HP Auto Port Aggregation (APA) — A network switch that allows you to manage multiple
network interfaces, which can be allocated to guests. For more information, see the HP Auto
Port Aggregation (APA) Support Guide
• HP Integrity Virtual Machines VMMigrate utility — An optional, separately-installed software
package that allows you to move virtual machines from one VM Host to another. For more
information, see Chapter 10: “Migrating Virtual Machines” (page 131) in this manual.
• HP Serviceguard — A software product that allows you to create clusters of HP-UX systems
for high availability. For more information, see the Managing Serviceguard manual, and
Chapter 11: “Using HP Serviceguard with Integrity VM” (page 141), in this manual.
1.4 Using the Integrity VM Documentation
The Integrity VM product includes several useful sources of information, whether you are
considering how to set up your virtual machines or determining how to upgrade your installation.
1.4.1 Integrity VM Manpages
For online information about using Integrity VM, refer to the following manpages on the VM
Host system:
• hpvm(5) - describes the Integrity VM environment.
• hpvmclone(1M) - describes how to create virtual machines based on existing virtual machines.
• hpvmcollect(1M) - describes how to collect virtual machine statistics.
• hpvmconsole(1M) - describes how to use the virtual machine console.
• hpvmcreate(1M) - describes how to create virtual machines.
• hpvmdevmgmt(1M) - describes how to modify the way virtual devices are handled.
• hpvminfo(1M) - describes how to get information about the VM Host.
• hpvmmigrate(1M) - describes how to migrate virtual machines from one VM Host to another.
• hpvmmodify(1M) - describes how to modify virtual machines.
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