Technical data

• 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.
11.9 Network Interface Support
VM Host I/O is HP-UX based. Specific network interfaces are supported if they are supported for
the version of HP-UX in use on the VM Host system. The VM Host physical network interface card
can be configured with Auto Port Aggregation (APA), with the resulting port supported as indicated
in the following table:
Integrity VM Version B.04.30Virtual Network Adapter Type
All HP-UX supported Ethernet interfaceslan (legacy VIO)
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)
11.10 AVIO Support
Integrity VM V4.3 supports AVIO storage drivers and AVIO networking drivers.
11.11 Online and Offline Migration Support
The following list provides the supported online and offline migration paths for HP-UX and OpenVMS
guests:
• Support:
Forward migration — Supported between two VM Hosts running the same or subsequent
Integrity VM version (see Table 6 (page 48)).
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◦ Backward migration — Supported for a guest migrating back only to a VM Host running
the same Integrity VM version on which the guest was originally booted (including any
Integrity VM release patches that were installed on the original VM Host) and has not
been rebooted since. As of Integrity VM Version 4.3, a guest can also be migrated back
to a VM Host that is running a later version of Integrity VM on which the guest was
originally booted. For example, a guest booted on a VM Host running Integrity VM Version
4.2, then migrated to a VM Host running Version 4.3, can be migrated back to a VM
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