Integrity Virtual Machines is a hypervisor from Hewlett Packard Enterprise for HPE Integrity Servers running HP-UX. It is part of HP's Virtual Server Environment suite, and is optimized for server use.
Developer(s) | Hewlett Packard Enterprise (originally Hewlett-Packard) |
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Initial release | 2005 |
Stable release | 6.3.5
/ March 2015 |
Written in | C and Itanium Assembly language |
Operating system | HP-UX, Linux, Windows, OpenVMS |
Platform | HPE Integrity Servers and other Itanium platforms supporting HP-UX |
Type | Virtual machine monitor |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www |
Christophe de Dinechin initiated a skunkworks project to virtualize Itanium, with the help of Jean-Marc Chevrot and of a "virtual team" of experienced HP engineers. A prototype of Integrity Virtual Machines was then developed between 2000 and 2003 by Christophe de Dinechin, Todd Kjos and Jonathan Ross.[1][2] It was then turned into a full-fledged product by a larger team of experienced OpenVMS, Tru64 Unix and HP-UX kernel engineers.
Exact specifications depend on the precise version and system configuration.
Integrity Virtual Machines can be created and managed using a command-line interface or a graphical user interface accessed using a web browser.
Essential commands include:
hpvmcreate
to create virtual machineshpvmstatus
to display status informationhpvmstart
and hpvmstop
to start and stop virtual machineshpvmmodify
to modify existing virtual machineshpvmconsole
to simulate a hardware consolehpvmmigrate
to perform on-line or off-line guest migrationhpvmsar
to show performance information about the running guests.hpvmsuspend
and hpvmresume
to suspend and resume virtual machinesThe user interface is integrated in the HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager.[13]