HP Integrity Virtual Machines

Special notes

This 1-day RAIL hands-on course is designed for experienced HP-UX Integrity server administrators. As of March 2007, the full content of this course is included in U5075S.

Course overview

The HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VM) product is a robust soft partitioning and virtualization technology that provides operating systems isolation, with sub-CPU allocation granularity and shared I/O. Put simply, Integrity VMs enable you to create a virtual machine, a software abstraction that presents all of the interfaces provided by a computer system's hardware. Integrity Virtual Machines software enables virtual devices by emulating them with real hardware devices. A single HP Integrity server running Integrity VMs can support multiple virtual machines, each with its own separate guest operating system. This 50% lecture and 50% lab course will help you develop the skills to install, configure, and manage the VMs.

Prerequisites

• Experience in HP-UX 11i administration (H5875 or H3064 / H3065)
• Familiarity with network concepts and configuration
• Familiarity with Partitioning and Virtualization concepts

Audience

• If you attended course U5075S prior to March 2007 , take this HB506S course to add HP Integrity Virtual Machine administration to your server virtualization skill set
• HP-UX System Administration Managers

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Course objectives

• Relate the HP Integrity Virtual machines software with other hardware and software components of HP’s Virtual Server Environment (VSE)
• Define the relationships between the VM host and its guests
• Boot the VM host
• Configure, boot, monitor, modify and manage VM guests
• Use the Virtual Machine Manager to monitor a VM environment

Next steps

• HP-UX Resource Management course (U5447SR)
• For more next steps see our HP-UX Virtual Server Environment (VSE) courses

Benefits to you

• Learn how to install and administer HP Integrity Virtual Machine (VM)
• Automate events and tasks
• Create consistent reports on managed systems

Course outline

Important Note: The student must have attended HP-UX Partitioning (U5075) prior to March 2007 or understand HP-UX Partitioning concepts, to attend this fast-paced 1day HB506S HP Virtual Machine course.

Introduction

• Identify the major concepts and benefits of server virtualization, such as dedicated vs shared resources, resource utilization and performance.
• Compare the features of virtualization options offered on HP Integrity servers.

• Define HP Integrity Virtual Machine terminology, such as VM host, VM guest, physical resource, virtual resources, CPU granularity
• Define the relationship between a VM host and VM guests
• Describe the virtualization of CPU, memory and I/O resources.
• Identify the functions of the HP Integrity Virtual Machine host (VM host).
• List the requirements for a VM host.
• List the requirements for a VM guest.
• Follow the control flow of a VM guest resource request.

• Install HP Virtual Machine software on a properly-configured HP Integrity server.
• Boot the VM host.
• Define, monitor and modify two VM guests with virtual CPU, memory and I/O resources.
• Boot, reboot and shutdown two VM guests.
• Log into the VM guests and VM host.
• Access the VM host and VM guest consoles
• Monitor resource utilization with Virtual Machines Manager
• Troubleshooting techniques