INTEGRITY
VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
Advantages:
This
is installed on servers which do not support vPar or nPar. Resources such as
processors, memory disk devices can be assigned from the VM Host and can be
modified later at any point of time. Modifying of resources such as cpu, memory
as of now in version 3 is not dynamic and requires a reboot of the VM Guest.
Dynamic assigning will be possible after release of version 3.5 in Dec’07.
Pre-Requisites to
Installation:
Install
the OS on the physical server where the virtual servers will be installed. The
physical server on which the virtual servers will reside is called VM Host and
virtual servers called as VM Guests.
Integrity
Virtual Machine can be installed only from OS Media HPUX 11.23 May 2005 or
later.
Install
software Integrity Virtual Machine product # T2767AC
Install
the two required patches PHKL_32158 & PHKL_33312 (please check at ITRC for
the superseded patch)
Installation Procedure:
1.
Create a virtual network switch
#hpvmnet
–c –S vmsw1 –n 1
Where
‘c’ is for create, ‘S’ is for the virtual switch name and ‘n’ is the lan port
so in this case it is lan1
Stop
and start the vm by:
#cd
/sbin/init.d
#./hpvm
stop
#./hpvm
start
Check
the config for virtual switch
#hpvmnet
(Kindly
remember to restart the hpvm services whenever a virtual switch is presented.
If two virtual switch is required then assign both virtual switches and then
once restart the hpvm services)
2.
Create VM Guest with dedicated processor and memory
#hpvmcreate
–P vm00 –c3 –r12G
Or
#hpvmcreate
–P vm00 –e30 –r12G
Where
“c” is the no of cpu , “e” is the percentage of cpu and “r” is the amount of
memory in GB and ‘vm00’ is the VM Guest
3.
Present an OS virtual disk to the VM Guest
#hpvmmodify –P vm00 -a disk:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c2t0d0
(Use raw device in case of scsi device)
As per best practice in case of San LUN create a
vg then an lv and map the lv to the VM Guest by following command
# hpvmmodify –P vm00 -a
disk:scsi::lv:/dev/vg01/rlvol1
Raw
devices from SAN also can be presented.
4.
Present the DVD for installaion to the VM Guest
5. For creating a global disk which will be
shared among multiple guests
#hpvmdevmgmt -a gdev:/dev/rdsk/c8t0d3
#hpvmdevmgmt -m
gdev:/dev/rdsk/c8t0d3:attr:SHARE=YES
6. Present the virtual switch to the VM Guest
#hpvmmodify
–P vm00 -a network:lan::vswitch:vmsw1
7. Check the VM Guest resources
#hpvmstatus
(It would show all the VM Guests with disks, lans
and dvd )
8. Boot the vm Guest and install OS:-
#hpvmconsole
-P vm00 –Ffi –c ‘pc –on’
Or
#hpvmconsole
–P vm00
Then
go to CM and type command “PC”
(This
will boot the VM Guest and start the installation, go to advanced installation
and provide system details)
9.
Installation reboots the VM Guest twice and then it comes to the login prompt.
10.
After the installation is complete unpresent the DVD drive to take out the OS
media :
#hpvmmodify
–P vm00 -d dvd:scsi::disk:/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0
11.
In order to access a VM Guest console from the VM Host: -
#
hpvmconsole –P vm00
This
will bring the vm00 (VM Guest) MP menu as follows:-
MP MAIN MENU
CO: Console
CM: Command Menu
CL: Console Log
SL: Show Event Logs
VM: Virtual Machine Menu
HE: Main Help Menu
X: Exit Connection
[vm00]
vMP>
11.
To switch between VM Host MP and VM Guest MP use cntl+x
12.
Procedure to insert and eject DVD from
the VM Guest :
type “VM” from the MP of VM Guest
Then type “in” to insert or “ej”
to eject.
2 Comments
is there a gui to install guest vm?
ReplyDeleteFinally found a human-readable step-by-step guide. Thanks!
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