This course covers hard partioning (nPars) and virtual partitioning (vPars) management along with Integrity Virtual Machines (HP VM) on cell-based HP 9000 and Integrity servers. The 4-day course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent hands-on labs using HP servers.
Please note: This course includes the content of the course, HP Integrity Virtual Machines, (HB506S).
Target Audience:
Experienced HP-UX system administrators
Pre-requisites:
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
At Course Completion:
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 Integrity Virtual Machines and vPars
Virtual Partitions (vPars) Preparation and Planning
vPars concepts
vPars database
PA-RISC and Integrity nPar/vPar boot sequences
vPars installation minimum requirements
Planning CPU, Memory, and I/O resource allocations for vPars
vPars in a Mixed HP-UX version environment
Configuring vPars to use dynamic memory
Administering Node Partitions (nPars)
What are node partitions?
Partition planning
First and Genesis partitions
Supported nPar configurations
Interleaved and cell-local memory
Remote nPar administration
HP-UX nPar management tools
parmgr architecture and using parmgr
nPars commands
PA-RISC and Integrity nPar boot sequence
Virtual Partitions Management
Display vPars status
Find unused resources in a vPars environmet
Migrate CPUs and Memory between running vPars
Flexible administrative capability
vPars - Ignite-UX considerations
make_net_recovery and make_tape_recovery
Integrity Virtual Machines Overview
Virtualization concepts, and terminology
Shared resources Virtual Machines (VM)
VM host, Virtual Machines, and VM guests
The Integrity Virtual Machine Manager GUI
Guest virtual networks and storage devices
Restricted devices
Preparing the Server for Integrity VM
Installation Pre-requisites
Creating Virtual Networks and Storage backing devices
Creating and running Integrity Virtual Machines
Integrity VM administration, configuration, and VM management
VM CPU , memory, and I/O allocation
Accessing a Virtual Machines Console
Managing and Monitoring Virtual Machines
Implementing VLANs
Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO)
Dynamic Memory
Clone and migrate Virtual Machines
Monitor VMs resource utilization
Serviceguard and HP Integrity VM
Creating Virtual Partitions
vPars commands
Interacting with the vPars Monitor
Setting Integrity environment variables to allow booting in a vPars environment
Managing and accessing the vPars Console
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