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11 Integrity VM Support Policy
This chapter describes the HP Integrity Virtual Machine support policies and software version
requirements for Integrity VM Host and guest operating system environments.
11.1 Integrity VM Minimum Support Life
The following table shows the support dates for Integrity VM versions.
Current StatusExpected End of Support DateRelease DateIntegrity VM
Version
SupportedSame as HP-UX 11i v2December 2007A.03.50
SupportedSeptember 2011September 2008B.04.00
SupportedApril 2012April 2009B.04.10
SupportedMarch 2013March 2010B.04.20
SupportedSeptember 2013September 2010B.04.20.05
SupportedDecember 2013March 2011B.04.30
NOTE: Integrity VM is supported for the HP-UX 11i v2 VM Host until the end of support of HP-UX
11i v2.
11.2 Integrity VM Upgrades
• Recommendation:
Upgrade to the current version of Integrity VM software and, for each virtual machine, upgrade
the Guest Management software.
• Requirement:
Customers must upgrade to the latest release in order to receive defect fixes.
11.2.1 Changes in Support
The following list contains changes in support in future releases of Integrity VM:
• VIO is deprecated in v4.3.
VIO support is deprecated in v4.3 and will be dropped in the next major release of Integrity
VM, so you should begin planning to convert from VIO to AVIO at your earliest opportunity.
To determine if your VMs are using VIO, run hpvmstatus -d for all your guests. Look for
storage devices that use scsi and look for network devices that use lan:
# hpvmstatus -P guestname | grep -w scsi
# hpvmstatus -P guestname | grep -w lan
Integrity VM V4.3 does not support a communication of a guest lan bound to a VIO localnet
vswitch port that has a tagged VLAN configured. The following table provides supported
scenarios of two network end points of a guest lan.
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