HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 3)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
Overview................................................................................................................................6
Infrastructure............................................................................................................................6
Systems Insight Manager console integration................................................................................6
Agentless management.............................................................................................................8
Setting the correct host name length............................................................................................8
2 Key concepts...........................................................................................10
Heterogeneous environment.....................................................................................................10
Virtual machine......................................................................................................................10
Virtual machine host...............................................................................................................10
Virtual machine guest..............................................................................................................10
Handling prefailure alerts........................................................................................................10
3 Initial setup..............................................................................................11
Licensing...............................................................................................................................11
Licensing VMM through the HP Insight Control License Manager..............................................11
Licensing standalone VMM.................................................................................................11
Adding standalone licenses.................................................................................................11
Applying standalone licenses..............................................................................................11
Configuring...........................................................................................................................12
Configuring WMI Mapper proxy server settings for Microsoft Hyper-V server.............................12
Configuring VMM on a Microsoft Cluster Server....................................................................12
Updating the HP SIM certificate on CMS..............................................................................13
Registering and unregistering...................................................................................................13
Registering virtual machine hosts..........................................................................................13
Methods of registering virtual machine hosts.....................................................................13
Registering virtual machine hosts by using the Configure or Repair Agents tool......................13
Registering virtual machine hosts by using the VMM tool....................................................13
Manually registering virtual machine hosts........................................................................13
Unregistering virtual machine hosts......................................................................................14
Manually unregistering virtual machine hosts.........................................................................14
4 Using Insight Control virtual machine management.......................................15
Insight Control virtual machine management interface overview....................................................15
Using Insight Control virtual machine management controls and tools............................................15
Configuring the polling frequency for virtual machine status checks...............................................17
Creating a CriticalVmHost collection.........................................................................................17
VMware ESX Server Guest System page....................................................................................18
Performance information..........................................................................................................19
Performance color codes.........................................................................................................19
Multisystem aware tools available.............................................................................................19
5 Managing virtual machines.......................................................................20
Making a backup of the virtual machine management database ..................................................20
Task: VMM security properties .................................................................................................20
Enabling certificate validation and CRL validation..................................................................22
Logging VMM logs into Windows NT Events..............................................................................22
Handling prefailure events.......................................................................................................23
Prerequisites......................................................................................................................23
Handling automatic prefailure events....................................................................................24
Handling automatic prefailure events by using the vCenter Server DRS cluster enabled in the
vCenter Server...................................................................................................................24
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