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NOTE: When booting OpenVMS from the installation DVD for the first time on any OpenVMS
Integrity servers system with a SAN storage device, you might experience a delay in EFI
initialization because the entire SAN is scanned. Depending on the size of the SAN, this delay
might range from several seconds to several minutes.
3.2.2.2 Booting Over the Network Using the InfoServer Utility
To use the InfoServer utility to boot from the network, certain configuration steps are required
initially (one time only); see
Appendix C (page 227) . The instructions on booting over the network
from a virtual DVD are also included in Appendix C (page 227) .
3.2.2.3 Booting Using HP SIM Provisioning
To use HP SIM provisioning to boot an image of the OpenVMS OE DVD, certain configuration
steps are required initially (one time only). For these steps and the booting instructions, see
Appendix D (page 245) .
3.2.2.4 Booting Using vMedia
To use vMedia to boot an image of the OpenVMS OE DVD, certain configuration steps are
required initially (one time only); see
Section D.1.4 (page 250) . For instructions on booting with
vMedia, see Section D.2 (page 279) .
3.3 Installing the OpenVMS Guest Operating System
HP Integrity VM is a soft partitioning and virtualization technology that provides operating
system isolation, with sub-CPU allocation granularity and shared I/O. Integrity VM can be
installed on an Integrity server or a hardware partition (nPartition) running HP-UX. You can
install OpenVMS as a “guest” operating system, which is an Integrity VM environment running
on Integrity servers. An Integrity VM Host administrator or an OpenVMS system administrator
can manage a guest operating system like a discreet Integrity server or nPartition.
For more information about OpenVMS installation, see Chapter 1 “Getting Started” .
For more information about Integrity VM installation, see the HP Integrity Virtual Machines
Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.
NOTE: OpenVMS guest on Integrity VM is supported on VT-i (Intel Virtualization Technology
for the Intel Itanium architecture) enabled Intel Itanium2 processors. Currently Intel Itanium2
9000 and 9100 series supports VT-i.
3.3.1 Preparing to Install the Guest Operating System
This section describes the important steps you need to take before installing the guest operating
system.
The Integrity VM kit is installed on the VM Host. Integrity VM is not supported with hyperthreads.
The following command checks if hyperthreading is enabled:
# getconf SC_HT_ENABLED
1
NOTE: In the output 1 indicates hyperthreading is enabled and 0 indicates hyperthreading is
disabled.
If hyperthreading is enabled, disable it by executing the following command and reboot the VM:
# /usr/sbin/setboot -m off
# reboot
The following are the pre-installation steps:
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