RX7640 vse licenses and base mem req

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Gurus,

I’m configuring a RX7640 (6 dual cores - 52Gb mem) - 1 npar 11i v3 Virtual Server OE - 3 vse guests 11i v3, 24Gb mem per VM.

In the above configuration I’m struggling with the licenses, do I need to add extra licenses for the VSE guests, or are these licenses included in the VOE license????

Another question is the amounts of memory I will need in the Npar configuration, is 4Gb enough or should I add more mem.

Thanks in advanced!

Robert-Jan

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Robert-Jan,

(I presume you meant 2 VM guests - 2 x 24GB + 4GB for host = 52GB?)

The VOE contains everything you need to run the guest OS in each VM, unless you want to use sometheimg that isn't in the VOE bundle (such as Serviceguard).

Memory requirements for the host are outlined here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/T2767-90105/ch02s01.html#hw_require

HTH

Duncan

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Ducan,

Thank you for your fast responce! Your answer solved the license part of my question.

Yes you are correct 52GB - 4 GB base - 2 * 24 GB for the VM guests.

base 11i v3 mem 1 GB + (7% 48GB = 34441MB) = +/- 4GB -- Correct?

Robert-Jan

[Don Morris_1]

I seriously doubt 4Gb is enough for the host. The core OS needs around 9% just to get the system running (per-page metadata and page scaled structures add up to most of that), so that's closer to 5.2Gb. I'd round up to at least 6Gb to have some leeway and that's assuming the Host is only running the Guests. So make it 23Gb per VM.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Don,

thank you for the advice, i will configure 8 GB MEN for the host.

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

[Torsten.]

Based on the formula you can find in the link posted above you should be able to calculate the requirements.

Anyway, after you started the HPVMs, run

# hpvmstatus -s

this will give you the HPVM Server System Resources (including the Available memory).

Do not try to assign each and every available byte ;-)

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

LOL Thorsten, it would be nice if could run hpvmstatus on the configurator.....

Best regards,
Robert-Jan

[VK2COT]

Hello,

Two weeks ago, I had to create a test environment on rx7620 which had 24 GB RAM
and ran HP-UX 11.23 December 2007 patches.

We were running a course for a customer
and used rx7620 to create 10 Integrity VMs
running HP-UX 11.31. Then, each pair of
VMs were used to create two-node ServiceGuard
clusters running Oracle.

The course was a great success BUT...

24 GB RAM was BARELY enough and one of
10 VMs had to use less than 2 GB RAM.

By the way, internal teams at HP
have access to VM calculator :)

Cheers,

VK2COT

[Torsten.]

OK, my understanding was

Iâ m configuring = I'm installing right now