topic Re: HP Integrity VM - Boot Disk in Operating System - HP-UX

HP Integrity VM - Boot Disk

FOBF — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:25:09 GMT

Hi everyone

I have a rx6600 with 2x146GB Disk HP-UX v3 installed, i know that HP Integriry VM is support for this server but i am not sure how many disk VM Host server will need in order to create 4 VM Guest? The guest server need a dedicated disk?

Regards

Re: HP Integrity VM - Boot Disk

P Arumugavel — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:07:05 GMT

Use recommended hardware configuration (memory size, disk space) for the operating system to be installed on the virtual machine .

Read the below page for detailed info.

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12715_div/12715_div.HTML

Rgds...

Re: HP Integrity VM - Boot Disk

P Arumugavel — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:19:52 GMT

The HP Integrity VM Sizer is an automated tool that assists the user with the size and scope of a server environment supporting HP Integrity VM. The sizing information and algorithms have been developed using testing and performance data on HP servers running HP Integrity VM.

This tool provides:
1. Quick and consistent methodology to determine a 'best-fit' server for your environment.
2. Bill of Materials (BOM) based on user input from the selected choice of solutions

Download and install the toll from below link.

http://sizers.houston.hp.com/sb/installs/IntegrityVM_Sizer.zip

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Re: HP Integrity VM - Boot Disk

Kenan Erdey — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:17:42 GMT

No, guest does not need dedicated disk. if you have san connectivity, it's good because you can use as much space as for guest boot disks.

if you don't have san connectivity, you can use free space in vmhost's disks. you can assign logical volumes that is created from this free space, as guest boot disks.

Re: HP Integrity VM - Boot Disk

Manix — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:43:16 GMT

>>? The guest server need a dedicated disk?
if this is true then why we need VMs ..the whole comcecpt of IVM is that the disks,lvols,fs CPU cycles ,memory chunks can be shared from the host side & the VMs can be discretely booted.

Of course the resource sharing comes with the cost of redundancy of HW failures that you need
to plan , but its possible to do many things
on a a same piece of disk /luns.

Thanks
Manix

Re: HP Integrity VM - Boot Disk

FOBF — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:18:48 GMT

Thanks to all guys, now i am clear.

Regards