Introduction to the HP Virtual Server Environment
- Why virtualize or partition systems?
- HP partitioning continuum
- Instant capacity solutions
- A cell-based system with node partitions
- Virtual partitions (vPars v5)
- Integrity Virtual Machines (VM)
- Resource partition with Process Resource Manager
- VSE management tools
- Workload managers
- Capacity Advisor
- Virtualization Manager
Addressing Hardware
- HP servers supporting partitioning
- HP-UX address types
- Legacy vs. agile view hardware addresses
- Viewing nPar, vPar and VM hardware addresses
- Device special files: legacy vs. Persistent
- Slot addresses
- EFI hardware addresses
- Viewing interface cards with pdweb
- Addressing tools summary
- Cell-based servers Integrity boot disk format
Administering Node Partitions (nPars)
- What are node partitions?
- Partition planning
- Interleaved vs. cell local memory
- The first and genesis partitions
- The complex profile
- HP-UX nPar management tolos
- parmgr
- Booting nPars
- Displaying complex information
- Dynamic nPartitions
- Cell state transitions
- Hyper-threading
Brief Introduction to Ignite-UX
- What is Ignite?
- Ignite-UX use models
- Interacting with Ignite-UX
- Ignite recovery choices
Virtual Partitions Preparation and Planning
- vPars v5 concepts
- Partition configuration key points
- nPar/vPar boot sequence
- vPars v5 planning and current releases
- Mixed release environments
- Installing vPars v5
- Minimum vPars v5 requirements
- Planning vPar resources
- Dynamic memory migration
- Locality of reference
Creating Virtual Partitions
- vPars v5 commands
- Interacting with the vPars v5 monitor
- Setting Integrity environment variables
- Managing and accessing the vPars v5 console
Virtual Partitions Management
- Display vPars v5 status
- Find unused resources in a vPars v5 environment
- Migrate CPUs and memory between running vPars v5
- Flexible administrative capability
- vPars v5 - Ignite-UX considerations
Integrity Virtual Machines Introduction
- Virtualization concepts and terminology
- Shared resources
- VM host, virtual machines, and VM guests
- Virtual networks and storage devices
- Reserved devices
- Integrity Virtual Machine Manager
Preparing the Physical Server
- Integrity VM requirements
- Creating virtual networks and storage backing devices
- Reserving access to VM host devices
- VM host HP-UX upgrade
Creating and Running Integrity Virtual Machines
- Integrity VM administration, configuration, and VM management
- VM CPU, memory, and I/O allocation
- Starting and stopping a VM
- Accessing a VM console
- Suspend and resume a VM
Managing and Monitoring Integrity VMs
- Managing I/O devices
- Adding devices to a running VM
- Storage — high availability guidelines
- Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO)
- Managing virtual DVD devices and VLANs
- VM guest dynamic memory
- Dynamic CPU management
- Cloning and removing a virtual machine
- Monitoring VMs and VMs from the host
- Configuration and log files
- Glance (and Performance Agent) in a virtual OS environment
- VM host CPU monitoring - hpvmsar
Migrating Integrity Virtual Machines
- Why migrate a VM?
- VM host configuration to support VM migration
- VM host requirements and recommendations
- VM configuration to support online migration
- VM migration procedures
- Offline and online VM migration
Using HP Serviceguard with Integrity VMs
- Integrity VM commands
- Serviceguard commands
- Serviceguard and Integrity VM use models
- Integrity VMs as Serviceguard nodes
- Cluster in a box
- Integrity VMs as Serviceguard packages
- Serviceguard and online VM guest migration
- Application monitoring in a VM guest package
- HPVM toolkit
- Serviceguard on VM host - LAN failover
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