HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 21)

6 Managing a virtual machine environment
The virtualization features of Insight Control provide central management and control for virtual
environments with VMware ESX and ESXi Servers, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V server,
and Xen on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
Insight Control virtualization features enhance the existing features of Systems Insight Manager
for managing physical servers by providing the ability to manage virtual servers in the same
console and showing the relationships between the two.
All tasks can be run from the CMS management console, using existing discovery, identification
and notification processes.
Launching virtual machine management features
Table 6-1 Launching virtual machine management features
Description From the CMS management console GUI
Enables you to restart, start, stop, and suspend a virtual machine. Tools
→Virtual Machine...
Provides the following options:
• Copy Virtual Machine... enables copying a virtual machine
between virtual machine hosts with the same virtualization layer.
• Move Virtual Machine... enables you to Move, SAN Move, Quick
Move, or Live Move a virtual machine between virtual machine
hosts with the same virtualization layer.
• Handle Virtual Machine Host Prefailure Events... enables
detection of certain pre-failure alerts and and relocates VM guests
before the failure occurs.
• Recover Virtual Machines of Failed Host... enables movement
of virtual machines from a failed host to their defined recovery
host(s).
• Backups enables creation, restoration, and migration of backups
of your virtual machines.
• Templates enables you to create, delete, deploy, and migrate
virtual machine templates that serve as master copies for virtual
deployments.
Deploy
→Virtual Machine
Provides the following options:
• Set Alternate Virtual Machine Host... enables you to specify
where to recover a host after receiving a pre-failure notification.
• Set Performance Threshold... enables you to set the performance
threshold to trigger a Systems Insight Manager event. Set for either
virtual machine guests or virtual machine hosts.
• Register Virtual Machine Host.. establishes communication
between the virtual machine host and the Systems Insight Manager
and virtual machine consoles.
• Unregister a Virtual Machine Host... terminates communication
between the virtual machine host and the Systems Insight Manager
and virtual machine management consoles.
Configure
→Virtual Machine
Enables you to enter the credentials that were configured on the
VMware vCenter Server Web Service page during the VMware
vCenter Server installation.
This configuration is required to manage VMware ESX servers.
Options
→VMware vCenter Settings...
Obtaining virtual machine management documentation
See the HP Insight Control Virtual Machine Management User Guide for more information about
configuring and managing a virtual environment.
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