HP Partition Management

Course overview

This course prepares experienced HP-UX system administrators to successfully manage HP Integrity rx7620, rx7640, rx8620, rx8640, and cell-based Superdome servers. Learn about HP’s cell-based server architecture and gain in-depth intensive hands-on experience with HP’s nPar, vPars, and Integrity Virtual Machine technologies as implemented on Integrity cell-based servers.

Notes:

• Students who attend U5075S need not attend HP's Integrity Virtual Machine (HB506S) class, as U5075S and HB506S include identical Integrity Virtual Machine content
• Students responsible for managing HP Integrity Superdome 2 servers should attend HP's Superdome 2 (HK713S) class rather than U5075S

Prerequisites

• HP-UX System and Network Administration I (H3064S) and HP-UX System and Network Administration II (H3065S) or
• HP-UX System and Network Administration for Experienced UNIX System Administrators (H5875S) or
• Equivalent experience

Audience

• Experienced HP-UX system administrators responsible for managing HP Integrity rx7620, rx7640, rx8620, rx8640, and cell-based Superdome servers

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Course Objectives

• Identify the hardware and software components of HP’s Virtual Server Environment (VSE)
• Configure and manage node partitions (nPars)
• Configure and manage virtual partitions (vPars)
• Configure and manage HP Integrity Virtual Machines
• Use Ignite-UX to install HP-UX in partitions

Benefits to you

• Determine and utilize the appropriate combination of HP partitioning continuum technologies that best meet your data center needs
• Increase server flexibility and utilization by knowing how to easily reconfigure and resize partitions
• Learn how to use Integrity VM to set up isolated virtual machines as test environments to reduce the time required to deploy new applications or application revisions
• Gain valuable hands-on experience with installing HP Virtual Machines on a properly configured Integrity server

Next Steps

• Learn more about HP virtualization technologies by attending HP-UX Systems Insight Manager (HK712S) and HP Capacity Advisor and Global Workload Manager (HF869S) or
• Expand your HP-UX administration skills by attending any other course in the HP-UX advanced administration curriculum

Course outline

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 tools
• 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
• 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