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Integrity Virtual Machines Example Scenario

This Integrity Virtual Machines example scenario discusses the creation and monitoring of several VM guests within a single VM host. Table 6-1 shows the physical configuration of the VM host server. The VM host is an nPartition in an Integrity rx8620 server with four cells. The VM host is running in an nPartition that has one cell, four CPUs, and 16 Gb of memory.

Table 6-1. VM Host Configuration

VM Host	Physical Memory	Physical Processor
rex01	16 Gb	4 @ 2 GHz

Table 6-2 shows the configuration of the VM guests that will be created during this scenario. Of particular interest in the table are the storage devices. Notice that each VM guest is allocated one disk device. Furthermore, the device files for virtual ...