New Features and Enhancements in This Release

Support for HP-UX 11i v3 as a VM Host – including features of HP-UX 11i v3, such as long user names, host names, and PIDs

Guests can run any of the following operating systems:

AVIO supports the following new features:

HP SIM/VMAN — Facilitates the display and management of Integrity VM MSE server groups. An API is supported to set and get the name of the MSE server group.

8 vCPUs — Increases scalability of Integrity VM to 8 virtual CPUs, which allows running guests with up to 8 vCPUs to be configured. .

Proximity support — New hardware division in cells. Cells are divided into two or more Front Side Buses (FSBs), called a proximity. Threads on the same FSB/proximity have better performance for in-cache locking than those on separate FSBs. When Integrity VM detects this hardware feature, the scheduler must place multi-CPU guests on the same FSB.

Disk management and CLI improvements.

Performance measurements improvements — Addition of the hpvmsar utility to measure performance.

APIs for management of Integrity VM Server groups and distributed guests.

Legacy and agile device-naming support — Add agile device-naming support provided by HP-UX 11i v3.

Automatic cell balancing — When the host is predominantly cell local memory, or the guest has the sched_preference flag set to “cell”, Integrity VM automatically pick the best fitting locality domain for the new guest. For applications that may perform better with interleaved memory (such as a massively-threaded Java™ configuration), you can override cell selection by specifying ilm.

Large page (64K) support on host — Provides support for 11i v3 larger base-page sizes.

IPv6 support on HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 guests and HP-UX 11i v3 VM Host— Provides IPv6 support in Integrity VM Version 4.0.

Per-guest capping functionality — Provides support for a new type of capping that allows you to set a limit on how much of a CPU a virtual machine can use.

OL* AddOnHost — Provides OL* handlers to Integrity VM such that when a cell is added, both the processors and the memory in the cell are added and become available to the host.

Concurrent dump — Allows an HP-UX crash dump to be captured on multiple I/O devices using simultaneously occurring I/O operations in parallel on all the configured dump devices.