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2 Installing VM Manager
This chapter discusses how to install VM Manager on your system or on the systems you will
manage, including setup and software requirements, licensing requirements, and how to set
WBEM security credentials.
System and software requirements
System requirements for the VM Host and virtual machines are described in the HP Integrity
Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual. In addition, see the HP
Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes, which are available on the product media. The most
up-to-date release notes are available at the following location (click on the HP Insight Dynamics
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VSE for Integrity tab):
http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs
NOTE: Operating system support for VM Host and guests varies from release to release of HP
Integrity Virtual Machines. For information about operating systems supported by a particular
release and about installing supported operating systems on virtual machines, see the HP Integrity
Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual.
With use of VM Manager in the Insight Dynamics environment, any managed node must have
WBEM and the appropriate WBEM credentials to support the visualization and configuration
features of Virtualization Manager and the collection of utilization data by HP Insight Capacity
Advisor software. Without WBEM, only HP Insight Global Workload Manager software for
Integrity (gWLM) is functional. Managed nodes are systems that the user has instructed HP SIM
to manage. For Insight Dynamics, all virtual machines and their VM Host are managed nodes.
Systems become managed nodes through the HP SIM “discovery” mechanism. Nodes can be
discovered by HP SIM in various ways, including automated discovery or manual addition of
the node. For example, you can configure and initiate node discovery, and perform numerous
other setup tasks, by using the Insight managed system setup wizard. For more information, see
the Insight managed system setup wizard getting started guide, available at the following location:
http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs
To use VM Manager and all its features, install the required WBEM provider components on the
VM Host and on the virtual machine guests.
In the Insight Dynamics environment, to install such components on guests, use the Insight
managed system setup wizard. The wizard allows you to choose whether to install the VM
Provider. The wizard also checks the selected virtual machines for the appropriate versions of
Utilization Provider software and installs the software as needed on supported platforms. (On
a VM Host, you must install the appropriate providers manually, using the VM Host command
line.) For more information, see the Insight managed system setup wizard getting started guide and
the HP Integrity Virtual Machines documentation available from the HP Technical Documentation
website (for the HP Integrity Virtual Machines documentation, click on the HP Insight Dynamics
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VSE for Integrity tab):
http://www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics/docs
In the HP SMH environment, install on the virtual machine guests the required provider
components located in /opt/hpvm/guest-images on the VM Host. Subdirectories contain
the guest management software for each type of guest operating system, including both HP-UX
versions 11i v2 and v3, Windows, and Linux. Each subdirectory includes software provided by
HP Integrity VM that should be installed on the guest, including the latest VM Provider software.
For more information about installing software components on the VM Host and guests, see the
HP Integrity Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration, and Administration manual and the HP
Integrity Virtual Machines Release Notes.
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