HP UX vPars and Integrity VM v6 manual Stop Virtual Machine page

Figure 51 Stop Virtual Machine page

4.In the screen example shown in Figure 51, two of the selected virtual machines are going to be stopped (bitsy00 and bitsy01), while two are already stopped (vm001 and vms). The screen reports that the OS is running on one of the virtual machines and advises you to shut down the OS on that machine before stopping it.

The How to Stop options allow you to control how a virtual machine is stopped:

•Graceful. This is the default. With a graceful stop, the virtual machine notifies the guest OS of an impending shutdown. This advance notice gives the OS an opportunity to perform cleanup operations before its virtual machine is powered off. A graceful stop typically takes 30 to 60 seconds, but can take as long as 5 minutes because Integrity VM waits for the OS to complete its cleanup operations.

•Forced. A forced stop is the equivalent of a power failure and gives no warning to the guest OS. Because the guest OS receives no advance notice of the power off operation, the OS has no opportunity to perform a crash dump or perform any system cleanup tasks.

If you want to set a forced stop for the machines, click the Forced option; otherwise, skip to the next step.

5.The Command Preview area shows the commands that Integrity VM will perform to stop the virtual machines.

Click OK to perform the action.

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