System and Software Requirements

System requirements for the VM Host and virtual machines are described in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual. In addition, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes, which are available on the product media. The most up-to-date release notes are available at the following location:

http://docs.hp.com

The following are the currently-supported guest operating systems:

HP-UX 11i v2 (December 2005 or later) and HP-UX 11i v3
Windows® 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter edition, SP1 and SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for HP Integrity servers SLES 10 update 1
Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition Advanced Server Release 4 update 4 and update 5

For information about installing these operating systems on guests, see the HP Integrity VM documentation cited previously.

On a managed node, WBEM and the appropriate WBEM credentials are required to support the visualization and configuration features of Virtualization Manager and the collection of utilization data for HP Capacity Advisor. Without WBEM, only HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM) is functional. Managed nodes are systems that the user has instructed HP SIM to manage. In HP SIM, all virtual machines and their VM Host are managed nodes. Systems become managed nodes by the HP SIM “discovery” mechanism. Nodes can be discovered by HP SIM in various ways, including automated discovery or manual addition of the node. For example, you can configure and initiate node discovery by using the HP SIM OptionsDiscovery menu.

To use VM Manager and all its features, install the required provider components on the VM Host and on the guests. The provider components are the VM Provider and the Utilization Provider:

The VM Provider provides configuration data on the VM Host and guests. This information is delivered using WBEM. Install the VM Provider when you install or upgrade the HP Integrity Virtual Machines product. Install the VM Provider on the VM Host and on each virtual machine. The version of the VM Provider installed on the VM Host must match the version of the Integrity VM product installed on the VM Host. HP recommends but does not require that the version of the VM Provider installed on the guests match the version of the Integrity VM on the VM Host. (For example, if the VM Host is upgraded to a newer version of Integrity VM, you must upgrade the VM Provider on the VM Host, but you are not required to upgrade the VM Provider on each of the guests.)
- For the VM Hosts, install the VM Provider (bundle name: VMProvider). This component is included with the Integrity VM product and with the HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005 (or later) release.
- For HP-UX guests, install the VM Provider (bundle name: VMProvider). This component is included with the Integrity VM product and with the supported HP-UX releases. It is also provided in the guest kit area on the VM Host. For HP-UX 11i v2, the guest kit area is:
  /opt/hpvm/guest-images/hpux/11iv2
  For HP-UX 11i v3, , the guest kit area is:
  /opt/hpvm/guest-images/hpux/11iv3
- For Windows guests, install the WMI Integrity VM Provider (installer: WMIHpvmProvider64.msi). This component is included with the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Windows, which contains HP Smart Setup Media (SSM) version 5.5, and with the VSE Management Software. This component is also included in the following guest kits area on the VM Host:
  /opt/hpvm/guest-images/windows
- For Linux guests, the VM Provider (bundle name: VMProvider) is part of the Hpvmprovider RPM kit, which is included in the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux (also known as HPIEFL for Linux) and in the guest kits area on the VM Host. For SUSE Linux, the guest kit area is:
  /opt/hpvm/guest-images/linux/SLES
  For Red Hat Linux, the guest kit area is:
  /opt/hpvm/guest-images/linux/RHEL
The Utilization Provider gathers utilization statistics for CPU, memory, disk, and LAN. This information is delivered using WBEM and gathers data using a daemon (/usr/sbin/utild). Install the Utilitization Provider on the VM Host and on each virtual machine.
- For VM Hosts, install the HP-UX Utilization Provider (bundle name: UtilProvider). This component is included with HP-UX 11i v2 December 2005 (or later), and with the VSE Management Software.
- For HP-UX guests, install the HP-UX Utilization Provider (bundle name: UtilProvider). This component is included with the supported HP-UX releases, and with the VSE Management Software.
- For Windows guests, install the WMI Utilization Provider (installer: WMIUtilProvider64.msi). This component is included with the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Windows, containing HP Smart Setup Media, version 5.5, and with the VSE Management Software.
- For Linux guests, the Utilization Provider (name: hp-utilprovider) is included in the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack for Linux, and with the VSE Management Software.

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