HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM) is a soft partitioning
and virtualization technology that enables you to create multiple
software-controlled Itanium®-based virtual machines within a single HP Integrity server or nPartition.
The virtual machines share a single set of physical hardware resources,
yet each virtual machine is a complete environment in itself and runs
its own instance of an operating system (called a guest OS). As with
a real machine, the virtual machine contains one or more processing
cores (referred to as virtual CPUs or vCPUs), memory, disks, networking
devices, and so forth. All these elements are virtual, meaning that
they are at least partially emulated in software rather than fully
implemented in hardware; however, to the guest OS they appear as if
they are real, physical components. The Integrity server or nPartition acts as a VM Host for the
virtual machines (virtual machines are also called guests). The VM
Host is a platform manager. It manages hardware resources such as
memory, CPU allocation, and I/O devices, and shares them among multiple
virtual machines. The VM Host runs a version of the HP-UX operating
system and can be managed using standard HP-UX management tools. |  | |
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager (VM Manager) is a GUI
that you can use easily from your browser to manage Integrity VM resources.
VM Manager allows you to create, configure, and manage virtual machines.
VM Manager enables you to visualize resources assigned to the VM Host
or to a specific virtual machine or virtual switch. For example, VM
Manager provides graphical views of virtual-to-physical network and
storage devices so that you can view I/O data, including resource
utilization information. VM Manager obtains information about Integrity
VM resources through Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) providers
installed on the VM Host. The following is an example of a VM Manager screen (the VM Host
view's General tab): |
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