HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Integrity Virtual Servers manual Overview, Advantages, Dependencies

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Overview

HP Serviceguard toolkit for Integrity Virtual Servers (SG IVS toolkit) is a toolkit that facilitates seamless integration of HP-UX vPars and HP Integrity Virtual Machines with HP Serviceguard. It has a set of shell scripts that aids in creating Serviceguard package for VM or vPar (that is VM or vPar-as-Serviceguard-packages) and helps to start, stop, and monitor VM or vPar on VM or vPar Hosts. This toolkit enables you to configure a VM or vPar as a package and provide high availability to the virtual machines configured in HP-UX servers.

NOTE: This document refers to vPars that is created using the product bundle BB068AA.

The SG IVS toolkit helps in Online VM migration in VM-as-Serviceguard-package and VM as a Serviceguard node configuration, which minimizes the downtime for planned maintenance activities on VM Hosts. The toolkit protects VMs or vPars from unplanned VMs or vPars Host hardware or software failures or failure of the VMs or vPars.

Also, you can configure the VM or vPar guest application monitor to monitor applications on the VM or vPar guest. It provides startup and failure detection capabilities and also VM or vPar failover for monitored VM or vPar guest applications using HP Serviceguard.

The SG IVS toolkit for HP-UX 11i v3: Annual Release, March 2012 is available for free download at http://software.hp.com —> HP-UX 11i Software —> High Availability

Advantages

When VMs or vPars is deployed in a Serviceguard cluster using SG IVS toolkit, it has the following advantages:

•Provides high availability to VMs or vPars.

•Provides high availability to applications running in the VM or vPar guest, through the VM or vPar guest application monitoring service.

•Minimizes both planned, and unplanned downtime of VM guests by using Online VM migration and HP Serviceguard respectively.

•Helps in migrating the workload by using Integrity VM and Serviceguard.

•Provides hardware, and software consolidation to business-critical customers.

Dependencies

You must install the following on the Host:

•HP Integrity Virtual Machines B.04.30, or HP-UX vPars B.06.10 or later

•HP Serviceguard A.11.20

Prerequisites

For the SG IVS toolkit to run on the VM or vPar Host, it requires the following prerequisites:

•Supported version of HP Integrity Virtual Machines or HP-UX vPars software must be installed.

•Supported version of HP Serviceguard must be installed.

Comparing HP Integrity VM Serviceguard toolkit and SG IVS toolkit

NOTE: This section is applicable only for HP Integrity VM B.04.30.

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