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April 2009 |
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| Online VM Migration is released for Integrity Virtual Machines v4.1. This enables a running VM, its guest OS and its applications to be moved to a different VM Host without service interruption. Service remains active without an OS reboot or application restart. All I/O connections to storage and networks remain active throughout the migration. |
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September 2008 |
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Integrity VM v4.0 uniquely takes advantage of new HP-UX 11i v3 capabilities in the VM Host:
- Native multi-pathing solution avoids cost of expensive 3rd-party solutions
- HP-UX 11i v3 mass storage stack simplifies administration of guest storage
- Integration with HP-UX 11i v3 Dynamic nPartitions enables cell on-line addition of processors and memory to the VM Host “pool” of resources, reducing downtime and costs—while increasing flexibility
- Accelerated Virtual I/O provides improved I/O performance specifically for HP-UX 11i v3 guest storage, as well as HP-UX guests overall
…and provides these new features:
- Larger virtual machines (8 virtual cores) extends Integrity VM use cases and reduces time-to-solution
- Capping of specified CPU resources eases administration of resources between VMs
- New hpvmsar tool assists performance analysis
HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Partitions provide:
- NUMA out-of-box support. Locality Optimized Resource Alignment ensures optimal memory configuration with factory integration, using cell local memory, where it makes sense, for increased performance.
- Directed LAN boot to install to an Integrity vPar from an Ignite Server which can be in a different subnet.
- Integrity Tunable Base Page Sizes to 8, 16, & 64KB from default 4KB.
Secure Resource Partitions v2:
- Lower costs by consolidating multiple applications within a single image of the HP-UX 11i operating system
- Processes and files are contained by compartments
- Role Based Access Control administers privilege
- Privilege sets the rules for inter compartment access
- Provide simplified guided setup:
- Base SRP Template provides a guided set-up process for establishing SRPs:
- Coordinates establishment of compartments, and compartment log-in
- Optional configuration choices for: Role Based Access Control (RBAC), enablement of IPFilter, IPSec, SSH and the set-up of HP Process Resource Manager (PRM)
- Guided-process application templates: Oracle, Apache, Secure Shell, general purpose
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June 2008 |
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| HP-UX 11i v3 update 2 (Feb. 2007), running on HP 9000 and HP Integrity platforms with nPartitions, is successfully evaluated against the requirements for EAL4 Common Criteria (ISO 15408) Assurance Level. nPartitions are certified safe and meeting the security requirements of the Common Criteria. The benefit is a third-party evaluation of protections against an approved protection profile. nPar is a safe method of partitioning assuring that an application within an nPar is isolated. |
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December 2007 |
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| Integrity VM (starting with v3.5) provides Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO), which streamlines I/O processing for Integrity VM environments, for improved I/O performance and increased storage capacity. On Integrity VM v3.5, there are AVIO networking and storage drivers for HP-UX 11i v2 guests, and an AVIO networking driver for HP-UX 11i v3 guests, (and in 2008 for 11i v3 storage, and early 2009 for Linux and Windows networking). |
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September 2007 |
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| HP-UX 11i v3 Dynamic nPartitions permit inactive cells to be activated, and active floating cells to be deactivated
online—that is, without reboot, and while all applications deliver service without interruption. |
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February 2007 |
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| HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Partitions offer dynamic memory migration, and mixed HP-UX 11i v2 & v3 vPars in the same nPar. |
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