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1 Introduction
This document provides an overview of the HP Insight Virtualization Manager software and logical
servers features. System administrators can use this document as an introduction to the Virtualization
Manager and as a guide to using the software to visualize and manage systems and workloads,
and to create and manage logical servers. For information about using HP Insight Dynamics, see
the HP Insight Dynamics 6.2 Getting Started Guide.
This document is intended to be used by system administrators, application administrators, capacity
planners, and other technical professionals involved with data center operations, administration,
and planning. An understanding of HP-UX, Windows, or Linux system administration concepts and
procedures is assumed.
The HP Insight Virtualization Manager software provides a framework for visualizing the HP Insight
Dynamics suite. All of the systems and workloads that you are authorized to view are displayed
in a graphical view. The hierarchical relationships between systems and their current utilization
metrics appear on a single screen. From the graphical view, you can click technology icons for
quick navigation to information and management pages. Virtualization manager also provides
drop-down menus, management tabs, and a convenient toolbar.
This chapter provides the following information:
•
Features of the Virtualization Manager, including Virtualization Manager tabs, menus, and
toolbar (see
).
•
Key concepts and terminology for understanding HP Insight Dynamics and features of the
Virtualization Manager (see
“Concepts and terminology” (page 15)
).
Features
The Virtualization Manager provides several features that let you visualize and manage Insight
Dynamics. Using the Virtualization Manager, you can:
•
Customize the level of detail that you want to see
•
Easily access additional applications to manage and configure systems and workloads
•
Inventory Insight Dynamics
•
Centrally configure your server resources for optimum utilization
•
Manage logical servers
For an overview of Insight Dynamics applications, see the HP Insight Dynamics 6.2 Getting Started
Guide at
.
Virtualization Manager tabs
The Virtualization Manager provides four tabs to move between the main views in Virtualization
Manager, Capacity Advisor, and Global Workload Manager:
•
Visualization tab – Displays the Virtualization Manager Visualization View that lets you visualize
all controlling technologies in Insight Dynamics and easily navigate to the management
application for each technology. For more information, see
“Using the visualization view”
.
•
Workload tab – Displays the Virtualization Manager Workload View that lets you view all of
the servers and workloads in Insight Dynamics, using a compact table format. See
.
•
Shared Resource Domain tab – Lets you view and manage Shared Resource Domains (SRDs)
using Global Workload Manager (gWLM). gWLM allows you to centrally define
Features
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